[Blindmath] Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator TI84 Plus

[Lanie]

I took Calculus II this semester and it was extremely difficult 
to do certain problems and understand what the class was doing 
because they used the TI84 and Mathematica.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Clark" <sharonjackson03 at comcast.net
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in 
mathematics'"<blindmath at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:32:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator 
TI84 Plus

As a TVI, I would find it extremely beneficial to high school 
students
needing to graph equations.  They would be able to receive the 
same
instructions as their peers and have the same result throughout 
the problem.
All of my students currently use View Plus's AGC, but the 
software does not
seem to be as simple as the TI84.  They are required to figure 
out the
problem before they can enter the information into the graph 
while their
peers plug in the equations directly.

Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Rosanne Hoffmann
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:13 AM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator TI84 
Plus

Hello All,
Please comment on the Texas Instruments graphing calculator, 
model TI84
Plus.  Is it the primary scientific graphing calculator in US 
school
districts for sighted students? Is there a demand or need for 
this
calculator to be accessible to students who are visually 
impaired/blind? Are
there math textbooks that contain problems to be solved with the 
TI84 Plus?
Are there calculators made by other companies that compete with 
Texas
Instruments? Thanks for any information.

Rosanne Hoffmann, Ph.D.
STEM Project Leader
Educational Research
American Printing House for the Blind
1839 Frankfort ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
502-899-2292
rhoffmann at aph.org



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