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The TI-89 destroyed my ability to do calculus. It was just too easy to plug in a problem and get an immediate answer. Great calculator, but be careful not to
by tdicola 12y ago
The TI-89 destroyed my ability to do calculus. It was just too easy to plug in a problem and get an immediate answer. Great calculator, but be careful not to depend on it too much.
- allegory 12y agoA million times this. Not only that, the Derive CAS was buggy as hell so a good tutor can set some traps to see if it was you or the calculator doing the work.
- Chinjut 12y agoIt sounds like the TI-89 vastly improved your ability to do calculus, to the point where it would be a shock to give up that improvement in ability. I would also say sine tables vastly improved people's ability to do trigonometry, back in the day... People will often express concern about growing dependent upon these devices, but I am in just the same way dependent upon pen and paper, dependent upon dictionaries, dependent upon Google, and a million other things. In a world where access to automated computation is so ubiquitous, what is the harm in, well, growing comfortable using it?