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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of people in this thread recommend calculators they never used for purposes they don’t understand.

The price point is not that big of a factor, for the Texas Instruments line it goes from ~$100 for the low end TI 83 models to ~$150 for the high end TI Nspire. All the other brands like HP, Casio, Sharp have similar price points for comparable calculators.

The most important consideration is what they will use in class and how much time the teacher will dedicate to calculator specific tasks. This can vary a lot from “figure it out on your own” to going with the entire class step by step, ie “press this button, then press that…”.

Besides this, you need to figure out what you want to use it for. For AP classes and students aiming for a 5, the high end is better. For those TI Nspire and HP Prime G2 are the best. TI has more features but somewhat clunky data input and menus, HP Prime has a touch screen, better hardware and more convenient input (dedicated trigonometric functions).

TI-84 CE is fine for most, but comparatively, learning how to use TI Nspire well is going to be an added advantage during tests.[/quote]

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