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[–] blueberry_tart@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's going to cost 6 arms and 3 legs, isn't it?

Individual customers will pay $160

Of course.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Buying the required TI calculator was already a hardship for me at ~$60 when I was in high school:( Probably this one won’t be required though

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure some high schools are on the same 8* line that they were on 25 years ago in high schools.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

My school still had loaner ti-82, when the ti-84se came out a decade later.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Can someone tell me what is the point of a graphing calculator? And before you ask yes I have studied engineering and we were never asked to buy one, we just used Matlab. I am genuinely curious I've never used one.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think TI has a racket or monopoly going on, using contacts with schools to make their calculators the mandatory ones they have to use.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

TI and collegeboard have been in bed together for years.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

And effectively mandatory in schools that didn't make it truly mandatory. I had to explain a LOT that yes, this is a proper calculator, it's just a Casio because it was $50 instead of $150.

[–] blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Back in the day it was a tool booth for aiding the education of advanced math, while I have to assume exposing kids (high school) to some technology. The TIs were the standard bearer because they were known to academia, and met their requirements for making cheating difficult enough. I forget the models that weren't allowed because they had some feature(s) that enabled cheating more, but, lemme just say, even the TI-83 or 82 enabled plenty of shenanigans

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Anything with a qwerty keyboard like the ti 89 was banned.

And the shenanigans were mostly bypassed if the teacher made you hold out your calculator so they can press the factory reset/clear memory button themselves, just before a test.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

$160 hard pass.

Just get a cheap pad and use python.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Graphing calculator (x84) on Android is the best ti-style graphing calculator I've found.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Surprised this wasn't an attempt to cram AI into yet another device.