Re: question about the 86 and the 89


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Re: question about the 86 and the 89



On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:03:35 -0400, Tucker <tucker1@ameritech.net>
wrote:

>every math competition in my area banned it...
>they banned it on ACT's? ti still says it can be used on act/sat...The
>ti-89 isnt worth it then if you need another calc just for big tests...

No, TI doesn't! You obviously skipped over the documents. TI says that
it is banned on the ACT.

The TI-89 is worth it. It's pathetic that you ahve become dependant
upon a calculator for a simple test! How do you think it was when no
calculators were allowed? I took the ACT one year before calculators
were allowed, and my with-calculator score was only slightly higher.
(And that's just because I learned more math over the time period
between tests.) Plus, the monitors (I forgot what the name is) for the
ACT test just checked to see whether you calculator had a QWERTY
keyboard or not. If you really wanted to cheat, you could use a little
paint, a new case, or just keep the calc in your pocket until it's
time to use it.

I found a scientific calculator to be more than adequate for the ACT.


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