TI-89 vs. HP 50g vs. ?

nasen
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:32:26 +0000

As AeroEngineer said, you will probably go ahead and buy it only to find that your college (and most likely your math class in high school too) won’t let you use it. Cornell’s engineering program bans graphing calculators, even the basic TI-83, altogether for their exams.

Again, I think it’s insane that you need such an advanced calculator for either the Calc AP test or the Math Subject Test. As it is, even the 89 already gives a lot of people an unfair advantage; you can have no clue as to how to do math and have the 89 still rescue you on the Math 2C. All I have to say is because of people who can’t do math without a top of the line calculator, thank goodness College Board had the sense to put sections on the AP test that prohibit the use of a graphing calculator. Quite frankly, no matter what anyone says, you simply can’t use technology as a substitute for math ability.