Re: TIB: Resetting memory

To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TIB: Resetting memory
From: NIKE5685@aol.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:09:57 EST
Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org


Symbolic manipulation was very helpful in algebra class. the 86 doesn't have 
this. I think the 89 is much better than the 86 for algebra.

In a message dated 1/12/00 6:02:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu writes:

> The TI-89 is banned on the ACT but NOT on the SAT.  I haven't heard 
anything 
> to
>  suggest they will change that rule for the SAT anytime soon.  The thing 
with 
> the
>  SAT is that you don't even *need* a calculator to complete the test.  What 
> they
>  are worried about with QWERTY keyboards is products such as electronic
>  organizers and other such devices that look like calculators, that can 
> really be
>  used to store dictionaries and other such illegal material.  And besides, 
> the
>  math on the SAT is mostly algebra and geometry, nothing that the TI-89 can 
> do
>  much better than say the TI-86.
>  
>  Bryan

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Re: TIB: Resetting memory

From: "Bryan Rabeler" <rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu>