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What 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 experien
by syockit 5y ago
What 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).