<p>Out of these calculators, which ones can I use on the SAT? </p>
<p>TI-nspire, TI-nspire CAS, and TI-84 </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>TI-84 is definitely allowed. Not sure about other two, but I wouldn’t risk it. Ti-84 is sufficient.</p>
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<p>As long as it is within the parameters on this page, I believe it should be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>You can use either version of the Nspire, including the new version with the touchpad.</p>
<p>The only TI banned calculators are the TI-92 and TI-Voyage because they have QWERTY keypads.</p>
<p>Here’s a follow up reference:</p>
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<p>All 3 of the calculators listed are OK.</p>
<p>All of those are fine.</p>
<p>This to me really raises the issue of comparability of SAT math scores over the decades. My son recently took the SATs as a Junior for the first and probably only time and scored a 720 in math using a TI 83+. I took the SATs in 1968 and though I do not remember what my math score was, it was generally considered pretty good but it was nowhere near 720. I worked with him in preparing for the math section and looking at the questions and firmly believed the math score I got in 1968 would have been at least 100 points higher if I had had a TI 83+ and had known how to use it. I asked my son if he thinks having the calculator played any role in getting his good score. He replied it was very useful on questions he was unsure of because he could use the calculator “to force it” (whatever that means) and get the answer. Yet, when I look at the average SAT math scores for students applying to college now they seem to be about the same as when I was applying. How is it that with very powerful calculators so inexpensive that anyone has access to them and the calculators clearly have the potential to perform calculations much faster and more accurately than doing the problems with pencil and paper only, everybody isn’t getting at least a 600 on the math SAT? Is it because students do not know how to use their calculators? (using the TI 83+ is a mystery to me but my son seems very proficient with it) Or, is it that the math skills of American students today are much lower than they were in the 1960s?</p>
<p>^You would be surprised how incompetent some of my peers are with their graphing calculators (and these are Precalculus and Calculus students). In addition, the SAT Math sections (like the AP Calculus exams) have changed since 1960 to keep up with the new calculators. In essence, a calculator genius with no math skills can’t use the calculator and score an 800 in Math. Your son obviously is decent in math since he can “force” out an answer by doing the calculations he’s learned to do in school. Without knowing what to do on the calculator, nobody can magically make the calculator pop out the right answer (except on maybe the first few questions).</p>
<p>^^I think “to force it” means what is more commonly known as “brute force.” For example, when finding the compound interest of something, instead of figuring out the exponent involved, you just push the equals button a few times.</p>
<p>That’s pretty rough example tho…</p>