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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]our TI-84 edition is still unopened.[/quote]

Is your student in Pre-calculus? It was not used in Algebra 1 or 2. It is used in Pre-calc and calculus. [/quote]

Yes PreCalculus.[/quote]

This is not a good sign.  About one third of the AP Calculus AB exam multiple choice questions and 2 of 6 AP Calculus AB exam free response questions are calculator questions.  In order for you DC to do well on those questions, he/she needs to know how to use a graphing calculator very well.  These questions are hard to solve symbolically.  Be sure that your DC is using the graphing calculator at the start of AP Calculus next year.[/quote]

our students used it starting in AP Calc AB (at BASIS) and were fine without having used it earlier.  But these kids were mostly in 8th grade, so they already had mathmania.  We'll see when the AP Calculus AB exam results come out.  But not using a calculator in Precal having had my kid taught by one of the math stars at BASIS (has been doing this for 20 years, private and public, has been a HOS at another BASIS school), a real rock star.... Calculators did not concern us.[/quote]

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