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

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Most of the teachers know, and don't care. One of my teacher's last year in Social Studies would confiscate it for the class period. Everyone in my school who's a junior or senior has an 82,83,83+,85,or 86. THere are tons of games going around. I'm one of three kids with graph links so most of the 83,82 people can't get good assembly games. The majority of kids who play games in class don't even get noticed because it looks like you are doing math. Most teachers are too stupid to do anything anyways.

These are what different people think and say about calc games:

English teacher: She's always very nice about it. She just says "Please put that away now"

Geometry teacher: Whoa. Every now and then when he's talking he will tell you to put it away. Sometimes when he sees someone's calc sitting on the desk by itself, he'll snatch it and get at his desk and play games (I'm not kidding)

History: She doesn't know what one is

Science: I was playing plain jump after a test and she came behind me "Is that a gameboy?"... hmm, does a gameboy have 50 buttons that say +,-,*,/,GRAPH,PRGM.. sheesh. I told her it was a calculator and she said "Well it looks like you have games on that." I now ask her to take it out :)

Friends: They'll snatch it when I'm not looking. If there's a password, they'll pull one battery and put it in real fast to retain memory and keep all data.

Many people (adults) think it's amazing to have games. Last year my LA teacher knew we had em and didn't care at all.. she was cool :)

The science teacher dosent let you play them at all!!! Trust Me I am in your class. She also saw someone graphing an equation and almost took it up!!! She is the worst teacher ever! She teaches every thing wrong too. Like "Plasma can't be created on Earth." I am lucky I already know every thing she is teaching!!! Back to the calculators. She also said she was instructed to take up any eletrical things. She saw my calculator (ti86) laying on my stuff and thought it was a game boy. It even had the cover on it. IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I'm lucky, my teachers don't really care. All they ever do is tell me to be quieter or to please put it away. I guess its because over 90% of the kids at my school have a TI calcand most of them have games. Some of my teachers have actually asked me to send them games, since they have the same calc. :)

@ my school, less than 1 percent of students have TI calcs, and the rest just love to steal them.
Current price for TI-89's on the local black market is $25

That 1% where I go to is an overstatement. Through an entire high school, I know only about 4 people who have calcs, and one only uses it for math and charges people to use it! What a d*ck! I own an 86, and because I'm not uptight (I let everyone play with it, as long as I can see where its at), no one would try to steal it.

To the question at hand,
I have been caught plenty a time, and I don't even try to cover it up. Where in the student conduct does it say that Game-playing calculators (or just calcs) are against school rules. They only have things on electronics, excluding calcs.
My French teacher once saw that I could play games on it, then at the end of the period, watched me and asked questions (of course, he's the biggest Star Trek freak I've personally ever seen). My Science teacher asked if he could borrow it ( I got thanked because instead of a lecture, he played Mario 86 and Tetris the whole period :) ). In English, he asked me to put it away until the end of class. Infact, as I look at it, the only person who's given me trouble was my math teacher. I had just gotten my calc and I hadn't gotten through the manual yet, during a lesson using calcs (we use old TI-80s) he said we should get an error, instead my TI-86 gave me an ordered pair and he told me that I should use the school's calcs because my calc was more than I need (I want to go into Engineering), and so that both he and I understood what was going on.
I got in trouble in Math for using my calculator for its actual purpose, go figure ! ! !

None of my teachers really care if we play games or not, just as long as we do it when they're not talking to the class.

I get caught all the time our teacher hate the calcs. Some idiot in History was like playin tetris on his 83 and the teacher threw it accross the room and it went smack on da wall. Anyway most teachers get real pissed off my english teacher even curses when someone starts playing with it and my science teacher takes it for one month. I can only play before school at lunch and on the bus.

Doesn't that rank up there with that "Destruction of Property" Thing?

I've been caught, but they didn't do anything. Everyone always want to play my calc it gets annoying after awile. I have a ti-82 with asm games and about everyone else have a ti-83+ with cheapo basic games. Why don't they get there own graphlink!!!

A graphlink???? Someone who plays basic games needs more than a graphlink to straiten them out!

Darn Straight! Same here.

I've only been caught programming, and my teacher offered to give me extra credit for writing some good ones, and I did, but he never gave me the points for it....

I have a TI-86, and I was wondering if there were any programs that protected your memory even if your AAA batteries were removed, as my teachers know about the keystroke changing ones. I've considered bringing up the school's policy that protects electronic property on the network to protect my calculator, but I figure that'd just be countered with their banning altogether.

Thanks,
Gilgaron

My Pre-Calc teacher is the only teacher i have that cares about games. But thats OK because i just made a picture of a simple graph and wrote a basic program to display it. So all i play in Pre calc is Tetris cuz I can hit DEL, F2, ENTER, and it looks like Ive been paying attention the whole time. As for my other teachers, There practically morons.

hey..I play in Precalc, Programming (front row baby!) and English...In College they don't care if you get caught

Some do though. The most that happens, though, is a short lecture...err, reproach...about, "Are you paying attention in class? Do you want an A? I'm gonna ask you what we're talking about..."

I have never been caught, but if I was caught and did get my memory reset I could be back up and running as soon as I took out my laptop and reloaded the games on the calc, which would take only a few minutes. Any way all of my teachers know I have a laptop and use it in most of my classes. Most of my teachers also know I constantly keep my memory backed up so reseting is not even worth the efort because it would only prevent gaming until I could get to a computer or boot my laptop. Anyway if you get caught you get caught there not much to it.

Happy Gaming.

I have a few points to note.

1) If you are using a calculator (for any reason) in a non-math class, you should expect the teacher to catch on.

2) Many math teachers realize that if you have your hand on the second key for an extended perion of time, and they've had more experience with TI-Calcs than talking about the students calcs they took that day, then they'll be quite sure of your activities. Note: This doesn't always mean that you where playing games. I've had teachers think I was gaming when I was programming. Alpha key :-(

3) If the teacher catches you more than once, DON'T do it again without changing something! Obviously what you are doing isn't helping. Change the way you do things.

4) If you don't want your memory erased, don't do anything to get it erased. If a teacher erases your memory, don't play the calc again in that class, unless you like having to find a friend to re-load it. (I have a problem with getting my memory erased on my TI-86, but that's because I do alot of on calc machine language programming. Tip: If you want to lear too, I can teach you, but please know assembler before you even come to me.)

5) Don't take notes on your calc! RAM is to vounerable to take notes on. (You are exempt to this if you have a flash ram calc.)

If you have an 86, get CHMASC by Kirk Meyers (is dat the correct spelling??)

It has a good chance of restoring >=60% of the stuff on your calc if you fill up a little RAM.

Otherwise, the data may not be recoverable.

It RULES!!!
Link gets you to ASM86 page <i hope> Otherwise, d:Þ

My study hall teacher kept taking peoples calcs until she saw me playing Solytare once. She was like, "can you set me up with one of those?" so I did.

Why on Earth was your study hall teacher taking people's calcs?