<p>Should i return a ti 83+ and get a ti 84 silver edition even though i already have a ti 89. do college profs allow students to use the 89?</p>
<p>depends on school/course. find out from your prof once you know which course you are taking. there is no blanket ban on ti 89's</p>
<p>All the high level math I've taken the professor will let you use any calculator you want on some stuff and no calculator at all on other stuff. It doesn't benefit you on anything that doesn't use ind. integrals to have the 89 though, and anything with real complex derivations will probably be modeling situations, in which case the 83 works fine.</p>
<p>I actually lost my 89 and had to find my 83 from high school and it really didn't hurt anything. I wound up relying on the calculator less and the knowledge more.</p>
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<p>It's typically all or nothing in college. I wish I still had my 83 + though. I hate the 89.</p>
<p>I loved my 89. I lost it and had to go to an 83. the 89 is a lot easier to use.</p>
<p>The 89 is much better than the 83 or 84.</p>
<p>I've never seen a professor ban a certain type of calculator. Not saying that none do, but I've never seen it before. Many will ban all calculators, but like someone else said, its all or nothing.</p>
<p>The 89 is only better if you can't do calculus. Seems more like a crutch. The 83 can do a lot of stuff with graphs significantly easier and not having the full on operating system of the 89 makes it much quicker to use. Having used the 83 throughout high school I am used to it, but it does everything I need to do easier and faster than my 89 even after having used the 89 for a couple of years. Should have never listened to people who said I'd want/need an 89 for college. ********.</p>
<p>I had an 89 throughout high school. Looking back, an 83 would've been just fine. I listened to people who said I'd need/want it in college. Well, in my first college math course (calculus), my prof told everyone right before the first test that we couldn't use 89s because someone told him that you can store formulas and other tricks in an 89. So I went out and bought me a a TI-36X Solar. Did just fine in the class. Really you just need--a calculator that has trig functions and you're set. But of course it depends on your prof.</p>
<p>An 89 is only a crutch if you use it as one, modestmelody. It makes certain aspects of calculus very convenient and easy to do. I by no means needed one; in fact, I could do calculus better than nearly everyone in all of Calc I and II at my school, but the 89 made things much more convenient at times, especially when I didn't feel like taking 4 or 5 lengthy derivatives for a homework assignment.</p>
<p>I haven't been allowed to use a calculator any of my calc classes for anything but homework anyway and I'm definitely a firm believer that I am better off for it, but that's a discussion for another day.</p>
<p>The truth is, unless you need/want a calculator that can do calc and polynomial factoring for you, it's easier to do more things with the 83+ in my experience (4 years on an 83+ in high school, 2 years on the 89 in college). The 83+'s simple arrangement also leads to a more logical organization of features.</p>
<p>how about 83 vs. 84?</p>
<p>Definitely 84, no question.</p>