Re: TIB: Resetting memory

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Subject: Re: TIB: Resetting memory
From: "Bryan Rabeler" <rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:31:42 -0600
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The TI-89 just does everything for you, duh. :)

Bryan

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>
> Symbolic manipulation was very helpful in algebra class. the 86 doesn't have
> this. I think the 89 is much better than the 86 for algebra.
>
> In a message dated 1/12/00 6:02:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu writes:
>
> > The TI-89 is banned on the ACT but NOT on the SAT.  I haven't heard
> anything
> > to
> >  suggest they will change that rule for the SAT anytime soon.  The thing
> with
> > the
> >  SAT is that you don't even *need* a calculator to complete the test.  What
> > they
> >  are worried about with QWERTY keyboards is products such as electronic
> >  organizers and other such devices that look like calculators, that can
> > really be
> >  used to store dictionaries and other such illegal material.  And besides,
> > the
> >  math on the SAT is mostly algebra and geometry, nothing that the TI-89 can
> > do
> >  much better than say the TI-86.
> >
> >  Bryan
>
>

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Re: TIB: Resetting memory

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