<p>My daughyer’s graphing calculator was stolen and we need to replace it. She will be taking statistics courses in college. Any suggestions on which one to get. She had a TI-nspire. Thanks!</p>
<p>You can get them at any office supply store, Amazon, E-Bay, etc.</p>
<p>My college does not allow graphing calculators at all in math classes. (Exams are taken either without a calculator or at most a scientific one to aid with arithmetic; and homework assignments use mathematical software packages that are more powerful than graphing calculators.)</p>
<p>If she doesn’t need a graphing calculator in high school, I wouldn’t replace it until she gets to college because she may not need one at all.</p>
<p>If you do want to replace her stolen calculator, get the same one or a very similar one. I’ve seen too many people with very capable calculators that hardly know how to use anything but the very basic stuff. If she knows how to use it, she’s ahead of the game. My son’s high school classes used books that had examples using a specific calculator and you may want to consider that in your purchase.</p>
<p>I would, however, second the comment that one probably doesn’t need a graphing calculator in college. My son has a high end HP graphing calculator (not that expensive these days) and knows how to use it. However, he had to buy a non-graphing calculator for taking exams in college as they would not allow him to use his graphing calculator.</p>
<p>My son uses either a school supplied (class specific usually) PC program, Excel or MathCAD for data analysis and graphing. She can get a jump on college if she starts learning Excel or MathCAD now, IMHO. </p>
<p>(MathCAD is a commercial program in which the equations are “live”; change a number or an equation and it recalculates everything. It is an expensive program but has an academic version that is around $100. The academic version does everything that the regular version does but puts a header on the output stating it is for non-commercial use only. Do a web search and look what MathCAD can do, it is ammazing. It does have its quirks and there is a steep initial learning curve. I do not work for them!! However, I do use it frequently as a practicing engineer.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions. She is taking pre-calc at a local college, so needed to replace it. She ended up replacing it with a similar model, as she has class this afternoon.</p>