Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Behold...the calculator

This is the corvette of calculators. It is amazing and I was ahem, able to learn about it for a very long day and a half. So, this calculator is the new and improved TI-Nspire because it obviously is going to inspire my students to understand and want to do their math work. It has the alphabet on it and can do excel on it and then graph it within seconds. You must be wondering who needs this...well, I guess every student in the State of Michigan, for sure. It even comes with a removable key pad and then you can put in a TI 84+ keypad just in case you don't think you have enough information. Sigh...

This lovely information is ALL of the stuff that I have to be able to do and show my students by September. The instructor went really fast and I had no idea what he was talking about. Luckily, I knew that I would be shopping by 3:30 Monday afternoon and so I sat very quietly and continually watched the clock. Notice the yellow and black book? They wrote a Cliff's Notes for this calculator. Obviously, they don't want me to read the other information then, right?

I know that you all wanted to see my fat notebook of information that I took notes on, but then I would have to seriously hurt you. If you want to learn, you have to suffer, oh sorry, sit through and take wonderful notes on the calculator yourself. If you ever want to sit around on a rainy day and play with my calculator and some math problems, I'm sure that I could do without it for a few hours.