<p>what graphing calculator do you guys recommend?</p>
<p>i heard you cant use calculators in calculus at stony brook so not really needed at all.</p>
<p>really anyone else know?</p>
<p>I called the Math Department, but their advisor was out to lunch. I'll check back with him this afternoon.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>Dan's actually pretty close. Here's the word from the math department:</p>
<p>"We don't have a specific model we require/recommend, since most faculty disallow them on exams. A few allow them, and a couple even require them. Someone who often requires a graphing calculator is Tony Phillips, who will be teaching MAT125 in the fall. Here is a statement from a recent web page of his:
We recommend the Texas Instruments TI-82, TI-83, or TI-83 Plus, TI-84 or TI-84 Plus, which are widely available. Certain other calculators (TI-85, TI-86, Sharp EL9300C) are also acceptable."</p>
<p>Interesting! There you go.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>thats crazy that you can not use them on the exams</p>
<p>If you could use them on exams, you could have the calculator do the whole exam for you. So it makes a lot of sense.</p>
<p>I love my TI-89, which I used for AP BC and multivariable calc this year. I think its most helpful for checking tricky indefinite integrals, but theres always a website for that if you don't actually need the calculator for other purposes. </p>
<p><a href="http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp%5B/url%5D">http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp</a></p>