<p>I'm going for engineering, and plan on taking a lot of science/engineering classes. None of my classes right now require a graphing calculator, but merely recommend some sort of TI-83-89 calculator to follow along with the work and work out the concepts as you learn. I'm comfortable with the 83 and was thinking of buying one of those...but will I ever need an 89 in the future? Would it be worth buying/learning to use one of those?
Current engineering students, what's your experience with calculators and classes?
Thanks in advance! ^_^</p>
<p>Don’t ACTs and other high school exams ban TI-89’s? Isn’t that a sign that institutions don’t like that bulky thing with a werid OS either? lol.</p>
<p>i used a $20 scientific calculator for the genchem profs that required one and my TI-86 for everything else (chemistry major)</p>
<p>As a TI-89 user all I’m going to say, is the 89 makes the 83/84/86 look like a joke… a 89 will literally do everything in calc as long as you know how to punch in everything correctly.</p>
<p>Schools/ math depts know this and make all calcs banned from exams.</p>
<p>I have a TI-89 Titanium calculator from high school calculus. Would I be allowed to use this in any of my classes?</p>
<p>you probably won’t be able to use it in most of the calculus classes but it’s definitely worth it for a lot of your other engineering classes where they don’t care how you solve an integral or a massive system of equations or whatever just to save time</p>
<p>@adl0816</p>
<p>Well I’m pretty sure its allowed for class and homework whatnot but you better know how to do it without it on tests/ exams/ whatnot.</p>