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Which calculator is more handy for Calculus 1?

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Originally posted by: Epiphany
Originally posted by: phreakah
let's just say my calc grade went from an F to a B after i got my 89

professor allowed us to use our calculators for tests LOL
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settled. 89 it is. Price differention between the 89 and the rest is pretty minimal.

thanks yall
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youll love it, it does multivar calc w ease (surface integrals etc). Most helpful thing ever, especially for calc 3 hw. Faster than maple imo, at least you dont have to deal with the funny syntax and such.

Too bad they didnt allow us to use em in calc 2 or 3... but then again if you get some crazy integral that you can do by hand, you must've @#@# up somewhere 😉
 
Unless you're going to be an engineer and take some massive hardcore math classes, the 83 is more than good enough for Calc 1. If you're so stupid you can't figure it out on paper anyway, well, you shouldn't be taking Calculus.
 
Be a man, just get a TI-83+ like I did. Passed through Calc 1,2,3 & Differential Equations with it. Just download the program to do integrals and the other to convert from imaginary to magnitude/angle .
 
Sadly, was confined to the use of a BA-35 the entire length of my mathematical education. Either of the above choices should be acceptable, as long as the motivation to use the calculator as a tool (and not a crutch) is present.
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Sadly, was confined to the use of a BA-35 the entire length of my mathematical education. Either of the above choices should be acceptable, as long as the motivation to use the calculator as a tool (and not a crutch) is present.
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Don't mean to thread hijack, but how is it being an actuary?
 
Get whatever you want.... most of these calculators now can do basic calculus for you (even symbolically).

I will suggest that you learn NOT to use it as a crutch. A lot of my statics students couldn't perform simple integrals in their head because of this. Also, if you NEED a calculator to do anything in calculus I, there are problems to begin with.

The biggest boon for these calculators is their ability to numerically solve equations. But if your teacher is worth one whit, you won't have any numerical solutions. I also happen to "borrow" an 86 and an 89 when test time comes around--just to make sure that there's one problem, it can't symbolically integrate. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: HokieESM
Get whatever you want.... most of these calculators now can do basic calculus for you (even symbolically).

I will suggest that you learn NOT to use it as a crutch. A lot of my statics students couldn't perform simple integrals in their head because of this. Also, if you NEED a calculator to do anything in calculus I, there are problems to begin with.

The biggest boon for these calculators is their ability to numerically solve equations. But if your teacher is worth one whit, you won't have any numerical solutions. I also happen to "borrow" an 86 and an 89 when test time comes around--just to make sure that there's one problem, it can't symbolically integrate. 🙂
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you're a prof? what classes do u teach?
 
I dont know about your calc classes but mine prohibited Ti-89s, and most only allowed the use of a 83+ on half the test. Id go with the Ti 83+ or the new improved version, the Ti 84+
 
Originally posted by: electricJ
Get the Ti-89.

But for goodness sakes, be sure to learn how to differentiate and integrate by hand...
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Agreed, altho i got through calc i, ii, and iii with just my 83+.
 
I never used a graphing calc in university math. All of the questions I ever did were proofs or were easy to do without a calculator. Well, up until you needed mathematica to do some of them.
 
How can you find out which calculators are banned?

Do they usually tell you on the schools website?

For instance, anyone know about NCSU?
 
I learned Calc 2 years ago in a class that didn't allow a graphing calculator of any kind. It was actually much better that way since I think I learned a lot more.
 
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