<p>I'll be a frosh in the fall. I have already taken Calc I, and will at least take one or two math courses in stats and quite probably Calc II or Multi. Would you recommended an upgrade from the TI-84?</p>
<p>I own all three.</p>
<p>Don’t bother. They’re slow and somewhat more annoying to use. Not really worth the money, IMO. I still use my 83 actually.</p>
<p>Plus, for all of my math courses, I wasn’t allowed to use a grapher. Had to have a scientific for stats and wasn’t allowed a calculator for my cal courses.</p>
<p>Just stick with the TI-84, you should be good. I used and still use my TI-83plus for all my math classes.</p>
<p>If your class allows calculators and the book includes calculator instructions, most are written for 83/84.</p>
<p>You are not going far enough into math where those higher calculators could really help you.</p>
<p>Stick with the 84, save some money</p>
<p>**** the ti 89 … it’s so incredibly annoying to use. the buttons are tiny and the premium isn’t worth it when you’ll never have to use the linear equation solver etc. and the inspire is the flashiest, most pathetic calculator i’ve ever seen. it’s useless, don’t even think about it. stick with ti-84 and wolframalpha if you need to do complex integrals and stuffs</p>
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<p>oh yeah, and that</p>
<p>The math department at my high school required all of us to use either TI-83 or TI-84. When I took AP Calc my senior year, he made supplied us with TI-89s in-class, but advised us to go buy our own if we could. So I did. It saved my ass in that class, and it saved my ass when I took Calc I last semester.</p>
<p>I would guess using a TI-89 in Calc 1 defeats the point of learning Calc 1…</p>
<p>Not necessarily. In my calc class, we had to learn everything but we could use 89’s some. For example, when we learned derivatives and integrals, we could NOT use our calculators on homework (AKA we had to show all work). But when we did area between curves, we were allowed to use the integrate function on the calculators after we had already shown setting the integral up. Every test has two parts, a calculator part, and a non calculator part to test the basic skills we still need.</p>
<p>I think the point is that we still learn and know how to differentiate and integrate, but when we learn new concepts, we spend more of our time working on the new stuff then just rehashing what we already know.</p>
<p>Ditto on all the responses so far.</p>
<p>The more math you know, the less calculator you need.</p>
<p>In fact, even as an engineering major, I haven’t used a calculator since I set foot in college. Alright, I did have to do one calculation on the computer, but the TI-89 wasn’t even close to being powerful enough to do it.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t bother, personally. I’ve gotten through every college math class I’ve taken (random honors course on mathematical modeling/chaos theory, calc I, calc II, and statistics for behavioral sciences) with a TI-83plus. </p>
<p>Actually, I wasn’t allowed to use a calculator for calc I or II, at least not in class. I needed it for the other classes though.</p>
<p>I love my Ti-89, and I think it is a beneficial step up from the 83 because it can do integrals (not sure if the 83 can), which is primarily what Calc 2 is about. But, when I took that class last semester, I found myself using WolframAlpha.com all the time, and my calculator was never touched. WolframAlpha shows you how to do almost every integral, and I found it to be an absolute Godsend, which helped me ace the class.</p>
<p>Only need a TI-84 for Statistics… I feel sorry for anybody who’s allowed to use a calculator in Calculus or above.</p>
<p>Ti-83/84 can do integrals… math (9)</p>
<p>If you need a calculator to do derivatives/integrals/whatever other math functions, you really don’t know the math</p>