<p>I'm a senior in high school and my TI-83+ recently broke in the middle of a BC Calculus test...thankfully the teacher had one I could borrow. Anyways, since I only have a semester left of high school, what kind of calculators are used in college classes? I'm going to be taking a decent number of chemistry and math courses, I'm planning on being a chemistry major but I want to take some good math classes (no nerd comments, please!).</p>
<p>If it matters at all, I've applied to MIT, Davidson, Georgia Tech (already in), University of South Carolina Honors College (didn't want people to think the fake USC), and Furman.</p>
<p>I am all with you on the nerd thing. Personally, I use a TI-83+ for calculus (my teacher won't have otherwise), but I've been hoping to borrow a TI-89 for the AP test. It's the same as the TI-92, if I recall correctly, except it lacks a QWERTY layout. Because of this difference, it's allowed on tests. Check out <a href="http://www.ticalc.org%5B/url%5D">www.ticalc.org</a> for more information (and useful applications).</p>
<p>check out wut the math deparment says for wutever college ur gonna go to, at UNC they say ur not allowed to use TI-89s, well for calculus anyway.</p>
<p>If college abbreviations could be copyrighted, South Carolina would be the only USC.</p>
<p>The University of South Carolina was founded in 1803, the University of Southern California was founded in 1880. With no basis on academic or athletic merit...University of South Carolina wins! You guys are like the Elisha Gray of the telephone world...</p>
<p>In my math class, calculators weren't allowed at all for tests, and in my physics class my professor supplied us with scientific calculators owned by the department.</p>
<p>We're not allowed to use graphing calculators in class. We can use scientific calcs like TI-34/36, but on tests we're only allowed 4 function calculators, heh.</p>
<p>I've never seen any calculus classes that allow calculators. But it's a trade-off: they don't give you incredibly ungodly hard problems that you have to use calculators for. So if you know the concepts you'll be just fine! (imagine that)</p>
<p>Well, at least we won't have to do the incredibly, ungodly hard questions, just the ungodly hard questions. But I have seen some of the Calculus 1 exams from Universities and they actually seemed a lot easier than the tests that we are given in AP Calc.</p>
<p>I'm at Cornell, and for the math classes, we arent allowed to use any calculators on the tests at all. And the tests are still insane. I'm not positive what the normal math classes are like, but I think they are the same way (I'm in engineering, and we have our own math track). As for chem, the department doesnt allow the use of graphing calcs, only scientific. However, my prof this semester decided to break this rule and let us use whatever calc we wanted basically as a comfort and familiarity thing, and he just trusted us to not store stuff we shouldnt (and as far as I know, people were good about this). However, this was an exception with a really cool and great professor. Physics I think youre allowed whatever, but I havent taken a class yet and I dont remember my friends say yay or nay about it.</p>
<p>Now those were just for the tests. Personally, I have both a TI-83+ Silver Edition which I have used since 11th grade, and I also got a TI-89 Titanium this summer. I use both for homework and such. Really just whichever I pick up first. I wouldnt normally have two calculators but one of my friends had my 83 when I was leaving for school and he was away, and I needed one. So I got the 89, and about a month later, lo and behold, my friend finally mailed me my 83. Anyhoo, the 89 has been useful in the math homework because it can do integrals :)</p>
<p>Yeah, the problems on my multivariable exams were basically problems were a calculator wouldn't help you (other than maybe solving a quadratic but those aren't tough anyway). I realized during the class that even using a TI-89 wouldn't have helped me on the exams. So, I just kept my trusty TI-83 Plus that I had all through high school and it served me just fine for the homework problems, which we were allowed to use calculators for.</p>
<p>In your college Calculus courses, how does your homework go? Do they actually assign it and grade it, or is it more like a do it if you want the practice, if not, don't do it.</p>
<p>Most classes give problem sets that are due every week. For my calculus course, he assigned problems for each chapter and we turned them in and he graded them. Each homework and quiz was worth 40 points, but they were worth only 100 points all together in the final grade. And the tests had like 6-8 problems on them, but they were long and the test was still worth 100 points.</p>