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Originally Posted by EricH
I'm assuming that almost everyone here has a calculator. So, here's the question: What do you use, and what is your best tip for it?
Explanation: What kind of calculator (include the model, if possible) do you use? What tip or advice would you offer to a beginner on the calculator?
Go ahead and make comments on how your experience with someone else's calculator type was (if you had one), include all the goodies, or tell how many you have. Or anything else that would further the discussion.
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One of my calculators (the one I use most often right now): TI 84 Plus Silver. Tip: Be careful on entering data for graphing. Enter it wrong and you get an error or a wrong graph (painful experience earlier today  ). |
I just picked this one up a few semesters ago and I LOVE it. It's a Casio Fx-300MS (dual line display & two way power). It's cheaper than most Texas Instruments and the keys are easy to read and use.
http://world.casio.com/edu/product/c...up_fx300ms.jpg
My best tip for this calculator is use the parenthesis so you can calculate long equations all at once and the "replay" function is awesome for going back and checking what you did on other calculations. This calculator works with statistics, but data entry is MUCH easier with a TI-83(84,89).