Survey posted 1999-10-06 23:07 by Andy.

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ok, what about when i took Algabra 1 a second time for a better grade and i already knew everything? (the 2nd teacher didn't grade homework or make me show all my work) I would just keep to myself and play games on my 92. The teacher would know what i was doing... but quizing me about todays topic was pointless since it was so easy.

Seems like a total waste of time to me ;)
Just a thought.

Calc gaming in class is a real art. you have to act like you are doing something important and not pounding the buttons on your calc. My policy is to only let a teacher catch me once, then stop playing in that class (or hide it well enough) If there are any teachers reading this then I hope that they don't get any ideas. oh well.

The worst time I was punished for playing in class, the teacher took my calc away for the weekend. I thought that that was rather harsh.

I once was without the use of my calculator for a weekend. By the end I was in withdrawl and was incessantly trying to play Bomber Bloke on the TV remote.

u think that's bad? I got my calc STOLEN once. I had to wait 4 months to get the $$$ to buy a new one, and that's with birthday and Christmas money!
-squtza

You want art????
I have an 86, and I have trained myself to play most of the games I like with my left hand and fake taking notes with my right!

Here is my advice on playing calculator games in class:

Only play games during math and science classes. And hold a pencil in one hand while you are playing. That way, it looks like you're doing your homework.

P.S. I have a fake mem clear in my Statistics Toolkit for the TI-83.

Dude teachers are stupid i had my ti out in class once i am in the front with the teacher in front of me and she's like the long pice goes on the side to get a higher score and i m like wtf!!!

For all of you playing games (including me) I would recommend not playing when they're teaching because it will only get them mad and spoil it for everyone else. Some moron with an 83 in my class was playing games so obviously while the teacher was teaching he got mad and said that no one can use any graphing calculator during class and gives us crappy TI-30x solars and collects our calculators at the door. So be careful and try not to get caught.

I got caught a lot last year. I just got my 86 plus the graph link. In a few of my classes I would sit in a desk in the first row. All the teachers saw me, all of them said something sometime, but none did a thing about it. I guess high school teahers don't care what their students do as long as they get a pay check at the end of the week. Not all are like that. Like my English teaher last year. I would play in his class and program in basic. Sometimes he would say, "Put that thing away." Many times, he ignored it, even though I sat 5 feet from him.

The best thing are programs that shut down when you press [More], like mario, subhunt 86, and more. Ztetris has a great game saving feature for escaping a teacher's prying eyes. HicQuest II's teacher feature is a life saver beause it displays math problem on the home screen when a teacher is coming along.

YES I have a math teacher that has quoted "I am only in teaching for the paycheck and the three months off in the summer" he has also quoted that he hates all of his students the same! There is another math teacher at my school that doesnt even teach. He just gives you the assignment at the beginning of the period and makes you figure out how do do it.. He just sits and reads the entire period.

I've been caught once, despite all the people I've given games to haven't ever been caught.... I like to go out of my way to make sure everyone is playing games on their calc by offering them games... But I guess they don't have the reputation as "TI-8x calc fiend" like I do....

hey man, you should always put a teacher function that works! (it actually calculates)

Yes, all the teachers know I play games in class. But they don't mind, because I always listen to what they have to say, hand in all my work, and get good grades. If the calculator games don't affect this, they couldn't care less.

Personally, it tends to only be the female teachers that ever care whether I play games or not. All three (Algebra1, Geometry, and Algebra2) male teachers I have had haven't cared whether I played games in class. However, the two female teachers I have had (Pre-Algebra, Trig) have gotten a little upset when people were caught (notice I said "people"). I personally have never been caught, but that is probably because I makes good grades, behave, etc. (no, I'm not a nerd! I just happen to be a smart, popular person! Hmm, that was an oxymoron!) Well, anyways, I only play games when the teacher isn't teaching, is helping someone individually, assigns classwork (hmm...never!), or I finish my homework in class. However, Friday, I did play a nice round of ZTetris that got me a fabulous high score of 52357 (!), which, caused me to have to finish my homework at home--but, that what HOMEwork is, right?

Well, I have said enough,
Matt H.

I know exactly where you are coming from. I have yet to find a teacher that understands the fact that high school students will procrastinate as much as possible with their homework as if we were afraid that the very act of doing homework could very possibly bring about the end of the world. I also have found that as long as I continue to get good grades and turn in my work, I will probably only get a loud "Put that thing away, or I'll take it away and clear the memory" as punishment for playing games in class. Although my Algebra I teacher, the "Human Calculator" as we called him (due to his disgusting obsession with numbers, Numbers, and ever more NUMBERS!), did take my 85 away and reset the memory. Although he didn't intend to return it, I was able to steal it off of his desk on the way out. He kept a close eye on me for the rest of the year. Very close. But his eye was no match for my cunning! HAAAHAAHA AHAA-HAAAA - >COUGH< >GAG< HA- >CHOKE< heh-heh.. -AHEM-..

If school is our jod them why do we have homework?
Our parents don't go to work, work and them bring more work home, do they

I've been caught four times and I have learned the ummmm...modern art of well....loking like your uh.....working

A lot of my teachers know I play games in class and don't care as long as I don't disrupt class. Some teachers will only tell me to put it away when they want me to listen. I even had teahers have me put games on theres or let me play games on the overhead which was cool. :-)

I mentioned an AP physics teacher above,
the only time he makes people put their calcs away is when he notices the link cables strung around the room or hears someone say "You son of a @#%$, you killed me again!!!"

A lot of the teachers at my school will clear the mem on the calcs, but it never works...they do it over the summer, when they collect them all (since almost all rent them from school)...but every year, someone (like myself) will get all the games back in circulation...people play, they get their calcs cleared, they get the progs back...they dont worry about it...

Then there's me...no one cares what I do in class because I always turn things in and get good grades...so I play all the time...

No one ever gets caught because professors don't care. I pay tuition and compete to add classes. Most of the time, I wouldn't waste my money and efforts by playing games in class. And when I do, professors don't care. If you get "caught," you're probably still in high school.

That's true with me. In high school the teachers cared, or pretended to care, about every student's success. In college, they don't. We can come and go from class whenever we want and they don't bug us about taking notes, we can sleep or play games. College Rules!

I am in high school, and rarely get caught. I find that the most injustice that i feel comes from teh fact that the teachers were so ignorant last year that everyone who had an 89 in Alg II A was allowed to use it, but this year some exceptionally stupid stdent with too much money bought himself an 89 and read the manual. He was so overjoyed with the fact that he could do all the work in the class w/out actually doing any work that he just had to show the teacher. What a dumbass. Now we can't use our 89s and I have tried everything to convince the teacher to let us. The other Alg II class can use them, but we can't. I'd take my 89 apart and shove the innards into the box of an 83+ if I could, but it really wouldn't work, so, I'm SOL. Especially annoying is the fact that several of my friends went out and spent the extra $45 bucks for the 89 over the 83+ and now they're pissed too. I find myself frustrated by the ignorance of everyone else in the class, because Graphing Calcs were made mandatory this year, and everyone but a select few owns a $90 calc that (to them) does six functions. I had to lease a calc from school, and was told that I'd get an 83+, so i paid my ten bucks, and they handed me and 83. An 83. Now, not only do I have to learn how to work a different calculator, I have to learn a calculator that is even inferior to all the other calcs in the class, excepting the individuals who actually know how to use their 89s, and feel my pain, for they are in the same situation as I, stuck with their POS 83s and hating it. We also happen to be the only people in the school with graph-links, so we became the game-suppliers and now the pool is kept up-to-date with new games by us. I wish someone could esign s a prog that would transfer 83+ progs from an 89 to an 83. That waould make me happy. I also plan to fuck with my 83, overclocking it, and backlighting it, and stuff like that, just to piss my teachers off. I'm also debating modifying the battery cover, so I can use AA batteries that'd last a little longer than AAAs. That way I could graph stuff real fast, and do other stuff real fast. Maybe I could even charge for doing other peoples calc up in a similar fashion... After all, I'd never use that vile 83 for games, after all, there are no games for it that could compare to, say, SMQ, or BoulderDash, or even Phoenix. God I hate that stupi little 9th grader with too much money and a big mouth. I'd like to act as Tollbooth Willy would, and fucking drop him with a fucking boot to the fucking skull.

If I could find out my teacher E-Mail address and PW, i could fuck him over with porno spam or something, which would make me feel marginally better.

This is the longest post I've written ever, and I'm done.

My school has virtually banned the 89 since teachers found out how powerful it was

I showed my math teacher my 89 and she thought it was the cooles thing. she doesn't care that i don't do any written work anymore in class because i still have to write out my problems on the test

My Pre-Calc teacher is awesome! TI-83s are provided, but my teacher has no problem with 89s being used. In fact, the more she finds out about them the more she likes them. Unfortunately, these feeling vary from teacher to teacher at my school, and now that some of the advanced class math teachers own 89s, the entire department will know what they can do. I just have to hope that my calculus teacher next year feels the same way that my pre-calc teacher does.
Also, the best use for calculator games is for after tests and during class down-time. On the NJ HSPT (very, very, very easy), you aren't allowed to do anything while you are waiting for the test period to be over, except check your test, and on the math section, play with your calculator. There is too much security for such an easy test.

Nathaniel Frissell

Heh. I told my Geometry teacher that I had a TI-86 and asked if it'd be okay if I used THAT instead of some stupid TI-83 that won't take me further then high school (most likely). She said, "No, someone tried an 86 last year and got confused." So, I grinned and said, "Want me to bring it in for you to look at?" Her eyes lit up, "Sure!"

So, turns out that I know the calculator better then she anticipated. Now, in the middle of class, all you can see is me playing ZTetris. Ahh, gotta love it! Also, she doesn't seem to care! She walked up to me, looked at the screen, then walked by. I was taking notes at the same time (played with left, wrote with right. I'm getting pretty good at it), so she didn't really give a s^%$ whether I was playing or not. Then, I showed her (at the end of the period. I have lunch afterwards and usually goto the computer lab and help out) the 3D Maze engine. She was so amazed that she NOW has a copy in HER TI-86 (she has a TI-83 Plus, TI-86 and TI-92)

Gotta love those teachers :)

My school is still in the calculator dark ages. I fell like I'm the only person there with something better than an 86. On the plus side, however, I can use my 89 anywhere and nobody knows how "helpful" it is. I've got the periodic table on it for science, a geometry formula prgram for geo., and etc.
My geom teacher expects us to use g. calcs on all his tests, then he expects us to memorize formuae! Fool.

dark ages huh? my school is in prehistoric times then! they 'reccomemned' the 83 becasue its the only calculator that theyre smart enough to use.

With the exception of the math/science department, my school is in the pre-cambrien epoch! Half the teachers are absolutly amazed by the old TI-30! several have never seen a graphing calculator!!!
In these classes I've never been caught playing games.
The teachers here don't even realize I can do sine and cosine!

My school is so stupid. They can spend 10000+ dollars on iMacs but can't get anything better then 82's. And they are only used in Pre-Calc up and Physics up. I only know one other person w/ a 86, but I have an 83, so there is 0.000000000000000000000001% chance of there being many people playing games. ALL OF MY TEACHERS are ignorant! They seat us in abc order, and I usually end up in the front row. But no one sees a thing! My Geom teacher can't even use the 82. So me and my 83 are safe =).

My school just purchased a big group of calc.'s. They had to get 83+'s though because the 89 or 92 did not have functions for Statistics. Stuipid Stat. class.

It would be a tad hard to f*ck with a TI83.

Ha ha ha...good idea. Adam Sandler rules. If you really want their e-mail, try Yahoo's people search. Type in your Teacher's full name, and choose the listing that seems logical for your teacher (if you live in California, don't pick someone with your teacher's name that lives in New York). Then send them all the crap you want. The 83 isn't that bad!!!! Put Leisure Suit Larry on your 83. Everybody loves Larry. Or play Grand Theft Auto. Or Gangster Hicks. Or Insane Mailman. True, the games don't compare, but you might as well entertain yourself with something...