Orange Style Color - TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator Review

Orange Style Color - TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator - Texas Instruments

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Customer Reviews

Orange Color TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator I love it!
I recently ordered this calculator and recieved it a few days ago. The variety of things that can be done with this calculator is almost endless in my opinion and I'm sure that it will meet all of my needs. If you're going to purchase this product, I recommend that you look through the other options because while it is a nice calculator, I don't think its worth $200 plus shipping. I liked the fact that the face of the calculator was all one color. Orange is a good color although I would have preferred blue. I purchased it at a significantly lower price, I believe it came out to be $112 including shipping and handling. What drew me to this calculator was the fact that it's the same type that was used in my pre-cal class.

Product Description

The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator comes fully loaded with a built-in USB port, plenty of memory, and loads of pre-loaded Apps - all to give you an academic edge in math and science. Designed for your high school and college classes, and to help you prepare for standardized tests and college entrance exams.

Features

• Electronically upgradeable graphing handheld allows you to have the most
• 2.5 times the processor speed of the TI-83 Plus.
• 480 KB FLASH ROM memory for data archive and storage of Apps.
• 24KB of available RAM memory.
• USB port for computer connectivity, unit-to-unit communication with TI-84

Pink Color Style TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator Review

Pink Color Style TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator

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Customer Reviews

did not recieve it and had no communication
I never received the product never had communication from the vendor and it put us in a terrible position. I am awaiting the refund still.

Pink Calculator Review
Excellent Pink calculator. Does everything and more. Very helpful for my son in highschool and beyond.

Awwwesome Pink Color Style
this is exactly what i wanted and more showed up in hte original package with eerything included awesome seller awesome shipping awesome awesome awesome!!!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
Building on the hugely popular TI-83 Plus, which is perhaps the best-selling calculator of all time, the TI-84 Plus pink Color edition is completely compatible with the TI-83 family. From that well-established platform, this new model adds more speed (a processor that's 2.5 times faster), an enhanced high-contrast display (eight lines by 16 characters), changeable faceplates (pink included), and a suite of 30 applications. And with nine times more memory than the TI-83 Plus (1.54 MB of RAM, 480 KB Flash ROM), there's plenty of room for even more applications and your own data storage.

Includes a USB Port and cable.

It also adds USB on-the-go technology (cable included) that can be used to share files with other calculators or to connect to PCs or optional presentation tools.

Comes with 30 pre-loaded applications and supports all TI-83 Apps.

Thirty applications are pre-loaded. Popular application titles include Cabri Jr., CBL/CBR, Conic Graphing, Inequality Graphing, Probability Simulations, Science Tools, StudyCards, TimeSpan, Topics in Algebra 1 Chapter 5, Topics in Algebra 1 Chapters 1-4, Transformation Graphing, and more. For students in math and sciences, the TI-84 Plus pink edition is a powerful, problem-solving tool with features for storing, graphing, and analyzing up to 10 functions. Plus, it displays graphs and evaluates tables on a split screen, allowing you to trace the graph and scroll through table values simultaneously.

Split screen lets you view a graph and its equation at the same time.

With the TI-84 Plus pink edition, you can view an equation, its graph, and the coordinates all at one time. Jump from point to point by entering a number. Several useful plot types are available, including scatter, box-and-whisker, XY-line, histogram, and normal probability plots. Advanced statistics and regression analysis, graphical analysis, and data analysis are readily accessed, along with features for calculus, engineering, financial, logarithm, trigonometry, and hyperbolic functions--all crucial tools for advanced analysis. With its clear display and fast processing, the calculator incorporates graphing tools for mathematics and science course work, including statistics and finance.

The optional kickstand slide case is great for desktop work.

The TI-84 Plus pink edition is powered by four AAA alkaline batteries (not included) and one silver oxide battery (included) for backup. An automatic shutoff feature is included to save energy. It is supported by a 1-year limited warranty.

Optional color faceplates add flare.

What's in the Box
TI-84 Plus pink Color edition, USB cable/TI connectivity cable, pink faceplate, silver oxide battery, TI Product CD-ROM with full reference guidebook and free software applications, and warranty information.

BLUE TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator -Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments - BLUE TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator
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Customer Reviews

texas instruments ti-84 (blue)
The product advertised is not the blue TI-84 on sale in other websites. The product I received has only a pink front and the rest of the calculator is gray. That is not explained on the advertisement. I payed extra for a blue calculator that is not what was delivered to me.

Blue Color Calculator Review
Excellent calculator. Does everything and more. Very helpful for my son in highschool and beyond.

Product Description

The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator comes fully loaded with a built-in USB port, plenty of memory, and loads of pre-loaded Apps - all to give you an academic edge in math and science. Designed for your high school and college classes, and to help you prepare for standardized tests and college entrance exams.

Features

• TI-84 Plus Silver Edition-Blue.
• Graphing-Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1&2, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics, Pre-Calculus.
• Can also be used for Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Business and Finance.
• Display size 64x96, Memory ROM/RAM 1.5MB/24K.
• Includes a protective slide case, complete manual on CD, Backup and 4 AAA batteries.

5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Statistics By Duane C Hinders

5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Statistics
By Duane C Hinders

Customer Reviews

Great Review Book & Great Practice Tests
I took the 2007 AP Statistics exam in May and got my score back a couple days ago. I got a 5!!!!!!

I credit much of it to the practice tests in the book. The practice tests had the same type of questions as the exam itself. The practice test's level of difficulty was also on par with the real exam itself, if not above. I took a Baron's practice exam as well and I actually found it easier than the Five Steps to a Five's practice exams.

While this book does explain concepts well, I used it primarily to just recheck some concepts. I learned most of it in class, and this book just reinforced what I learned.

I would recommend this to everyone taking the exam.

Generally OK. Some careless wording
You will likely ace your AP Statistics exam if you use this book (I wouldn't know, since I only used it for individual study). There are enough examples to illustrate the concepts. All exercises have solutions, and they are generally carefully chosen. You have a diagnostic test, and explanations on how the grade is calculated. Compared to similar AP Statistics books this one seems more to the point, so I recommend it.

However, some definitions could be more carefully worded and more consistent. Sometimes, the theoretical presentation gives me the impression that the author would describe things rather than define them properly.

For example, on the bottom of page 50 we read "a Random variable can be thought of as a numerical outcome of a random phenomenon or experiment". This passes as a concept description (although, strictly speaking, a random variable is a numerical function, not a numerical outcome; also, this definition may suggest that random variables make sense only in experiments with numerical outomes). However, on top of page 148 we read that "a random variable, X, is a numerical value assigned to an outome of a random phenomenon". So now the random variable is not a numerical outcome anymore, but rather a numerical value associated to an outcome. And it gets worse when using the notation P(X=x) to express that "the random variable X takes on the particular value of x". How can a random variable, which was defined as a value, take on a particular value? A value is a value, like "3", and it cannot take on another value. I think the statistics books should drop the habit of giving such pseudo-definitions to random variables. Tell a spade a spade: a random variable is a function defined on the sample space.

Page 143 features a messy mix between the concepts of "outcomes" and "events". Let's be clear: events are sets of outcomes. They cannot be mixed together. Thus it is wrong to say that "outcomes are sometimes called simple events". The correct definition is this: a simple event is a set that contains exactly one outcome.

On the same page, we read that "the probability of an event is the relative frequency of the outcome". Which outcome is that, anyway, since an event is a set of possible outcomes? This again mixes sets and elements of sets in the same sentence.

The definition of a probability distribution for a Continuous Random Variable given on pp 151 is cyclic, is not actually a definition and it is rather confusing. The fact that it is cyclic is apparent in these two fragments: "There is a smooth curve, called a density curve (defined by a density function)..." and "In this course, there are several CRVs for which we know the probability density functions (a probability distribution defined in terms of some density curve)..." It appears that each of the two concepts (density function and density curve) is defined using the other one.

Finally, by the time I reached the chapter on confidence intervals, I found myself doing what some teachers call "mindless calculations". Perhaps it is a sign that this book gives more recipes than explanations.

I would like to read a new edition of this book, in which the author spells out the definitions more clearly and beefs up the theory a little.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340703 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences)
By Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance, Barr J. von Oehsen

Customer Reviews

A High School Math Teacher's Point of View
This is an excellent book. Its lab-style approach with practical / tangible sets of data coupled with on-target follow-up questions makes this a wonderful book to teach and learn from. This version of the textbook focuses on using a TI-83 calculator to organize, display and analyze data in most of the problems. Managing the data lists for the TI-83 calculators in class can be difficult. I recommend that you ... download the program files that Al Coons put together. He placed all the individual data lists for each problem into programs. This makes it easy to manage and transfer these files to other calculators. Especially between TI-83+ and TI-83 calculators. Solutions to the "Activities" problems and various supplementary materials can be downloaded.... I recommend using Adobe Acrobat to download the "Activities" solutions. I made the mistake of using an old web-browser and wasted a whole summer copying and pasting. This may sound obvious, but it must be stressed....Answer all of the problems that you plan to work on in class or assign for homework prior to the actual class. Some problems require advance preparation or data collected from previous class activity problems. You need to find this out before walking into a classroom. This is the first time that I've taught an AP-Statistics course and the approach of this book takes a little getting used to. I'm having a ball! I rely heavily upon this book and the Barron's AP-Statistics study guide. Good Luck. It's a great book!

Complicated but easy to understand.
I read this book during my senior AP Bio class. My Biology teacher yelled at me for reading it during her class. So I left, because I didn't want to be yelled at. I then received a detention. Then I couldn't do my statistics homework and I failed the class. The book was stimulating if somewhat bland. I am writing this in a Starbucks in Toronto.

Really easy to understand. Great way to explore your TI-83.
I used this book in my AP Statistics class my senior year of high school. The Workshop Statistics book was really easy to follow and understand. I have always had a hard time with math, but when I used this book, I picked up on the concepts quicker. The only problem I had with this book is the fact that explanations of the formulas and procedures were not expained as clearly as I would have liked. This book is also a great way to orient yourself with your TI-83 scientific calculator (Texas Instraments).

Product Description

Consistent with the ¿workshop approach,¿ Allan Rossman and Beth L. Chance, joined here by Barr von Oehsen, have revised this version of Workshop Statistics with graphing calculator technology. Examples and exercises have been modified for use with the graphing calculator, integrating the TI-83¿ throughout. Short computer-program code is included in appendices, for use in programming calculators.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #689850 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 656 pages