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.
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.
11 comments:
sounds as exciting as my insurance classes...however I should expect a full demonstration one of these days...since by reading the cliff notes you will be an expert! LOL! :)
I would like to test drive your calculator. : )
there are cliff notes for a calculator?!??! What on earth! I thought the TI 85's were a big deal when I was in school! Good grief! Have fun with all that!
Ok my husband actually thinks this is a really cool calculator and wouldn't mind checking it out for real. Nerd. (You know I love him)
Have fun learning that one!
That's just too many buttons and functions. I would end up throwing it at the wall.
I remember the first calculator I ever bought in 1968. They told us that if we could get 10 guys to order that we could get a 4 function TI for $99. Yes, the same kind that you can buy for $2.98 at the grocery check out now, except it didn't have solar cell power and didn't have as many functions. It was a big improvement over our slide rules for basic functions. Do kids today even know what a slide rule is?
slide rule?
I know what it is, Phil. However, kids have no knowledge of it. If it makes you all feel better, most kids prefer the easy calculators that just have square root and square functions on it still. Only a handful of my students can work the graphing calculators with ease. BUT...our kids will have to know how to use them and be able to use them well. Just a warning!
I'm glad you made it though the class. I did think of you on Monday.
Hope you found some great sales when you went shopping.
The girls and I did a little shopping tonight. Penny's is almost giving stuff away. I kept to my list and only bought what I went in for. The girls thought I needed to buy for them.
Somehow I missed this post. I want to know who is going to buy these calculators. Sometimes I think administrators get bribbed to push technology, aren't there more important things to teach your kids?
I teach ESL and don't have the same tech needs as you do, but I have a paralel story.
Most of my students like using electronic translators, whereas I would prefer they use the traditional paper dictionary. They steadfastly refuse, and cling to their latest app. I have been dealing with this for the past 15 years, and I haven't seen a marked improvement in their abilities in that time. Do they resist the calculator the same way? Do they tell you that they have an app that will make this all go so much easier? Just curious,
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