Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by hombre_fatal on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:07AM (#21056438)

I was in HS in the early 2000s and graphing calculator programs were advanced enough to show you the work on the way to the answer. You'd just copy the steps onto paper. Especially useful for blitzing homework.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by mrguyorama on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:28PM (#21064286)

Those calculators were much more expensive than the already crazy expensive TI-84 that I had. When I got to college/calculus and actually started struggling with math a bit, I learned how to use the ability of calculators to check work or solve the end product to re-derive a method or otherwise help guide me. It didn't always work, but once or twice it was the key to helping me get an answer and process

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by donatj on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:30AM (#21056848)

I found a program like this about 6 months into my 8 month B.C. Calc class. I blame the discovery on my mediocre B.C. exam score, as while I knew how to do everything I was pretty slow at remembering how with my assigned calculator.

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