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[quote=Anonymous] :roll: [quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buy or borrow a used calculator only when specifically demanded. The standardized exams don't need anything sophisticated. Calculators are only for making TI rich. Learning happens in Desmos and Geogebra. [/quote]

You don’t want to show up at the AP Calculus or Statistics exam without knowing how to use your calculator inside out, it can be extremely helpful at the free response questions where you can easily solve everything on the calculator saving time and avoiding careless mistakes. There’s no access to Desmos or Geogebra during any exams like AP or SAT, you need to have a graphing calculator. Most course descriptions in the school catalogue will mention that and often will specify the model used in the class. You can also borrow calculators from some schools, but you still need to learn how to use it. You can also borrow textbooks, often people buy their own for convenience, it’s not that different for calculators and that doesn’t make TI an evil capitalist company.

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Charging $100 for a $15 calculator is evil capitalist. The dinkiest smartphone is 100x better than a TI, except for thevcartel control of school exams that add pointless "calculator-only" questions just to promote calculator sales. [/quote]

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Sure let’s allow internet capable $1000 smartphones on exams, that’s going to fix everything. Or alternatively, everything should be done with paper and pencil like during Newton’s time, and ignore the entire branch of numerical modeling, which is vastly more relevant today to science and engineering than the handful of problems that have analytical solutions.

Not saying TI doesn’t take advantage of their monopolistic market share, but so do test providers like College Board, textbook publishers, universities with their inflated tuition, and so on.[/quote]

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