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Pretty much this. This calculator is meant to break the hegemony of TI in high schools by providing a (cheaper) alternative. You'll end up having to disable CAS
by FriedrichN 5y ago
Pretty much this. This calculator is meant to break the hegemony of TI in high schools by providing a (cheaper) alternative. You'll end up having to disable CAS in school anyway, sometimes you're not even allowed to have it, even if you can disable it.
- syockit 5y agoWhat kind of calculator do you need for high schools anyway? Is there a reason why Casio isn't as popular? It's cheap, more responsive than TI (from my experience with TI-83).
- pjmlp 5y agoOP might be in US, apparently TI has some kind of government agreement there.
- qubex 5y agoI’m in Italy, actually.
- pjmlp 5y agoOh, I was only aware of "TI only" approach in US schools.
- qubex 5y agoIndeed… throughout my whole school career (ending with my graduation in 1999, albeit from an international school featuring the International Baccalaureate) nobody ever gave a fraction of a dam about what calculator we had, as long as it didn’t sport ‘banned’ functionality or features (the latter including a blanket ban on any QWERTY-layout keyboard, which was very odd).
- FriedrichN 5y agoThat would probably depend on the school and the country (perhaps even the teacher). In my case they didn't even mention that there was an alternative, the TI-83 Plus was pretty much presented as a must have.
- qubex 5y agoI’m somewhat aware that Texas Instruments enjoys some kind of quasi-monopoly on high school graphical calculators in the USA. However, when I was taking IB Maths Higher way back in 1999, I was using a Casio. Right after that I bought a HP 49G when I went to university. More recently I’ve been using an HP Prime (which I adore, but it’s a bit of an overkill in many ways) and the NumWorks with Epsilon (which is underwhelming in other ways, principally the CAS and lack thereof/need to use a separate and rather clunky interface for Xcas).