Graphing Calculators

by **mvpshaq32** on Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:14 pm

Not sure if this belongs here, but here goes.
I'm starting Adv. Algebra so I need a graphing calculator. TI84 is recommended, but the lowest price I found from stores is $99 at Best Buy.
Is there any other suggestions besides Ebay?

by **Fitzy** on Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:49 pm

your best bet would be ebay, but if you cant find one do what i did, buy one second hand of someone whose completed the subject and does need their calculator

by **[Q]** on Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:11 pm

I think ti-83 is good enough for that. no need for anything higher. you can use your 83 thru college if you don't do engineering or anything like that.

by **ixcuincle** on Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:47 pm

Yes , I still got my TI-83+. I don't know if people still put games on those though , in the day people would play Mega Man and tetris on their graphing calculators (and this was about 5 years ago)

by **[Q]** on Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:17 pm

lol funny thing is, at my school most calc and chem classes didn't allow graphing calculators because of cheating.

it was all about the games though. it was crazy back then. i used to have that puzzle game Yoshi on it and it was so addicting.

by **Silas** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:04 am

Pawns shops man, I'm serious, I've seen them there before and you might be able to find a cheap one there.

by **JT_55** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:37 am

Best Buy sell graphing calcuators?! :shock:

And for so cheap.

Man, I bought my TI-83 for about $90 CDN, and an 84 is about $120 sale price. You live in the States, right?

by **Jing** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:05 am

I've used my TI-83+ since like sophomore year of high school or something. Served me pretty well. We were in a finance class, and turned out the TI-89's couldn't even do some of the functions what we needed, or were much too complicated and such.

by **Anthony15** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:22 am

Yeah, TI-83 or 83+ are cheap and good, I bought mine for like 79 bucks at Target.

by **mvpshaq32** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:56 am

Jing wrote:I've used my TI-83+ since like sophomore year of high school or something. Served me pretty well. We were in a finance class, and turned out the TI-89's couldn't even do some of the functions what we needed, or were much too complicated and such.

Yeah, my teacher also said the TI-89s were too complicated and fancy.

JT_55 wrote:Best Buy sell graphing calcuators?! And for so cheap.

Man, I bought my TI-83 for about $90 CDN, and an 84 is about $120 sale price. You live in the States, right?

It seems Best Buy does because I looked it up online. And I do live in the States, in Cali. So there probably arn't any pawn shops there or at least none that I know of.

Our teacher told us about the TI-83, but she stood firm on us getting 84.
I found that Stapes has it with a in-mail rebate of $15 so I'll probably be getting it there.

by **Christopherson** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:28 am

To require a student to have a TI-83 for a high school class is rediculous, let alone an 84. I'm a senior in college getting a BS in Mathematics and I rarely use the 83 that I have. It just isnt that necessary.

by **Steve [The Spiderman]** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:45 am

Nah, the TI-89s are amazing. They have a lot more to them and can run many more programs then a TI-83 or 84. But, some classes/schools won't let you use them because they can solve equations for you...

by **Jackal** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:26 am

Fuckin' nerds.

by **benji** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:33 am

I have not posted in this thread, Jackal.

by **Anthony15** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:20 am

Jackal wrote:Fuckin' nerds.

The only way I happen to know anything about Graphing Calcs is cuz we need it for Math class thats all.

by **Jackal** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:29 am

benji wrote:I have not posted in this thread, Jackal.

Because you aren't a nerd. You just want to be.

by **benji** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:15 pm

I know TI-BASIC, used to know a good amount of TI-ASM. And almost a decade ago had a game posted on here: http://www.ticalc.org/

by **Jackal** on Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:34 pm

Fuckin' nerds.

by **Oznogrd** on Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:40 am

I had a TI 83 a few years back and it did well, now if i just knew where the hell i put it....i would ask your teacher why the 84 and not the 83 and if she can give you something other than "i know how to use an 84" go for it, if not, go with the 83

by **JT_55** on Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:20 am

Jackal wrote:Fuckin' nerds.

What, you never used a graphing calcuator in school? Everything seems so slow without it.

by **benji** on Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:07 am

illini wrote:I had a TI 83 a few years back and it did well, now if i just knew where the hell i put it....i would ask your teacher why the 84 and not the 83 and if she can give you something other than "i know how to use an 84" go for it, if not, go with the 83

I believe the 83 is a "discountinued" model, the 84 is essentially the same thing as the 83.

by **BigKaboom2** on Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:12 am

http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sales_ ... id=7173008

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YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:20 am

JT_55 wrote:
Jackal wrote:Fuckin' nerds.

What, you never used a graphing calcuator in school? Everything seems so slow without it.

I for one, don't. It's because for similar reasons like these...

Qballer wrote:lol funny thing is, at my school most calc and chem classes didn't allow graphing calculators because of cheating.

Jing wrote:We were in a finance class, and turned out the TI-89's couldn't even do some of the functions what we needed, or were much too complicated and such.

Christpherson wrote:To require a student to have a TI-83 for a high school class is rediculous, let alone an 84. I'm a senior in college getting a BS in Mathematics and I rarely use the 83 that I have. It just isnt that necessary.

Steve wrote:some classes/schools won't let you use them because they can solve equations for you...

To answer a probable post question such as "How do you solve graphing problems?"
Answer: Manually. Formulas and lots of graphing paper. It's the shite. Yes, I suck at it.
And to repeat what Jackal posted:

Jackal wrote:Fuckin' nerds.

by **JT_55** on Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:50 am

Graphing calculators don't just "graph", they can do other things, too. Like do probabilty simuations, trigonometry, etc. Some more than others, of course. A TI-89 is so useful (for cheating purposes) it's not allowed in school up here.

If I remember correctly, the TI-83's package says that it's for "high school use" (and maybe possibly junior year).

Christopherson wrote:To require a student to have a TI-83 for a high school class is rediculous, let alone an 84. I'm a senior in college getting a BS in Mathematics and I rarely use the 83 that I have. It just isnt that necessary.

So why would a senior have any use for it? It's obviously too complicated for that kind of work.

You quoted Jing as saying:

Jing wrote:We were in a finance class, and turned out the TI-89's couldn't even do some of the functions what we needed, or were much too complicated and such.

Quote the whole thing, man. He also said:

I've used my TI-83+ since like sophomore year of high school or something. Served me pretty well

Yeah. He was just saying how useless a 89 was, not graphing calcuators in general.

As for the other two arugments, that's simply different for every school. Some school allow it, some don't, and some don't allow a particular model.

I didn't bother to buy a 83 for a year in HS, and I had to trig manually. Man, that took long. Writing out all the sin cos tan and all that stuff, when I could've just typed in a few numbers in the calculator. Homework took 2 hours instead of 30 minutes. Lucky I passed math 10.

Oh, and as most people say, there good for games. The teacher won't let you play a DS, but a graphing calculator? :wink:

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:21 am

I know graphing calculators don't just graph. I have a 'non-graphing' one that has probability/statistics, trigonometric, and other functions.

I didn't say graphing calculators are useless, I said I didn't use them for similar reasons posted by other posters.

If the school and board exams allowed the use of it, I would definitely get it.

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