Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators

Posted on 25/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Texas Instruments’ graphing calculators have a reputation as hobbyist devices given their program support, but they just lost some of their appeal. Cemetech has learned (via Linus Tech Tips) that Texas Instruments is pulling support for assembly- and...

This calculator is nerdy and aesthetic!

Posted on 05/09/2017 by Sarang Sheth

Math isn’t boring. However, sometimes educational techniques don’t help making it interesting. Look at graphing calculators for example. They still embody an aesthetic from the 80s and 90s, and not in a good way. Looking more outdated than retro, these calculators are instruments of the profession, but they do little to spark curiosity or interest in it.

Built as probably the first (and only) graphing calculator with a GUI that will drive most nerds crazy, the Numworks Calculator is designed to help high school students learn and solve math problems, and includes a variety of in-built programs for different math scenarios. Packed with apps for calculation, functions, sequences, probability, statistics, and regression, as well as a tool for designing and executing Python algorithms, the Numworks Calculator adds a certain beauty and reduces complexity, making it one of the few calculators most non-mathematicians and non-scientists would strive to own! Plus, you can even check out the detailed online simulator to test out the calculator!

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Casio’s touchscreen graphing calculator arrives in 2013, makes the TI-84+ look dated

Posted on 29/11/2012 by Daniel Cooper

Everything's a battleground these days, isn't it? Even the makers of humble graphing calculators can't resist a scrap. Casio is now throwing down the gauntlet, announcing that its fx-CP400 will arrive shortly after rival TI's color-screened TI-84+. Casio's offering comes with a 4.8-inch, 320 x 528, stylus-driven display and can switch from vertical to horizontal modes at the touch of a button. If you're planning on some illicit classroom movie-watching, however, then you should know it only has around 30MB of storage -- but hey, that might be good enough for one thing.

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Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus review

Posted on 01/04/2012 by Darren Murph

The year was 1999. I was pondering all too carefully what kind of threads I'd be wearing come the new school year. But all I could really think about was exactly how much of my styling budget would be blown on some antediluvian piece of technology that -- in my mind -- was no longer necessary due to the invention of the internet. That hunk was Texas Instruments' TI-83 Plus. So far as I could understand it, the "Plus" meant that it had a few extra megabytes of RAM; why you needed loads of RAM in a graphing calculator, I had no idea. At $119.99, it was the most expensive purchase I made leaving middle school, and now that I've had well over a decade to toy with it, it's about time I sat down and gave it a proper review. Join me after the break, won't you?

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