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Duper now has a Calculator sold from me, Ti-83+ Silver Edition.

Cool cool. Be sure to visit www.arasian.com/vortex !

IMO The Ti-86 isn't worth the money at all. All the functions the Ti-86 has are avaliable for download for the Ti-83+ Taking into consideration how many people use the 83+, the amount of memory it has, the speed, and the better user interface... 83+.

you're a good man Ace

hey, i try to do my part. i dont need the thing anymore anyways. Duper has much more means of usage for it than i do.

for algebra? ALGEBRA?? wtf, back in the stone age when I went to school we actually had to use a paper and pencil. if you brought a calculator to class they flunked you. thats the problem today with alot of kids. I goto the store and buy more than 1 item and they need a machine to tell them how much I owe. i can add it up in my head faster than they can punch it into a calculator.

CUDA wrote:for algebra? ALGEBRA?? wtf, back in the stone age when I went to school we actually had to use a paper and pencil. if you brought a calculator to class they flunked you. thats the problem today with alot of kids. I goto the store and buy more than 1 item and they need a machine to tell them how much I owe. i can add it up in my head faster than they can punch it into a calculator.

Yeah, but some of history's most advanced mathemeticians couldn't balance their own checkbooks . I see calculators as a useful tool for performing operations and calculations that would be tedious and time-consuming if done by hand. Obviously, a calculator can't formulate equations or prove theorems; that takes a true mathemetician. However, it can quickly graph an equation, find the derivative/integral, or handle messy irrational numbers with ease. When you think about it, there's practically no way of easily using square roots/trig functions without a calculator.

CUDA wrote:for algebra? ALGEBRA?? wtf, back in the stone age when I went to school we actually had to use a paper and pencil. if you brought a calculator to class they flunked you. thats the problem today with alot of kids. I goto the store and buy more than 1 item and they need a machine to tell them how much I owe. i can add it up in my head faster than they can punch it into a calculator.

Thank you VERY Much Cuda. My point exactly. And Thank YOU Ace.

Like i said.. this is first year algebra and every student is REQUIRED to get it. ... i smell Big Brother...

You folks also have to understand Portland/Oregon schools. Thier a bit full of themselves but don't know how to wipe thier back sides. If I said more than that, I would be either banned or shoved off to the NHB forum.

Duper, you think that's limited to Portland or even Oregon? Welcome to the U.S. edumacation system.

Oh i know dude, it's just that I've known several people that have worked with the Portland School system cronies and they ...well.. they "pride themselves on being different".

FIRST YEAR algebra??? We werent even allowed to touch graphing calculators until the later part of Gemoetry, and even then it was only for demonstrations...tests were all paper and pencil Not even a solar powered 8 digit thingy.

Duper wrote:If I said more than that, I would be either banned or shoved off to the NHB forum.

So, start a venting thread in the NHB and let it all out.

I take it Duper, you aren't in the top 86.9% income earners in the world?

MD-2389 wrote:That would be the "main gun" on Talyn. (Farscape)

Thank god, for some reason i thought it was a giant penix enlargement tool

Come on... If the school system bugs you, homeschool! Seriously, this is just one more reason that I homeschool. I wasn't allowed to touch any calculator until algebra 1, and then only to check my answers. I'm doing advanced math now, and I'm still not using a graphing calculator. I'm using a casio fx-450 scientific pocket calculator (solar powered, of course).

Duper wrote:You folks also have to understand Portland/Oregon schools. Thier a bit full of themselves but don't know how to wipe thier back sides. If I said more than that, I would be either banned or shoved off to the NHB forum.

you think thats weird........here in GA, Elementary schools require students now to bring.... a Small pack of disinfectant Baby Wipes, a pack of sandwitch sized bags,1 pack of 1qt. sized bags, 1 pack of 1gal. sized bags. backpacks are strictly forbidden in Clayton County....even the clear or mesh backpacks are not allowed now. only a cloth covered single zipper notebook is allowed.

and thats not all......they also MUST bring sterile disposable gloves!!!

Jesus F'ing Christ!!! what are schools becoming these days. when i was in elementary grades.....we could bring frigging radio controlled vehicles, toys.........damn near anything we wanted, pending parental approval and school approval.