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[quote=Anonymous]It depends what you want out of the calculator.  You can get what the calculus class is using, our high school recommends TI-83, TI-84 or TI-89. A graphing calculator is also essential in AP Statistics.

As it was pointed out, College Board banned Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) from SAT in effect starting with August 2025, so if you want to use it for SAT, TI-89 is not allowed, or any other CAS calculator. Some AP exam only allow scientific calculators and others only 4 function calculators so check the published policy.

If you want to get something more sophisticated and capable you can use the CAS calculators, but you have to spend some time learning the menus and specific ways of doing things, which takes about a day spread around a few sessions.

If you care about graphing functions, HP Prime G2 is the best feature wise, most memory, power and a large touch screen (rare for graphing calculators), and has dedicated trigonometry buttons (sin, cos) which some find useful.

Also popular is TI-Nspire CAS, but graphing is clunky and has a rudimentary track pad to navigate the screen. The upside is that it has a ton of polished features, small snippets of capability, built in functions that make life easier. It has some project organization features that make it useful for longer questions where you have to define functions and do substantial manipulation. If you care about features, get this model.

Casio and Sharp have a lineup of calculators but they are not too popular in our area. Casio fx-GC500 has a huge screen but the stylus use is not permitted on the exam.

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