MATH LEARNING CENTER

 

GRAPHING CALCULATORS 

GRAPHING CALCULATORS

Incredibly accurate and helpful information can be found for your calculator on the Texas Instruments website.  Click on the icon for your calculator to go to the specific site for your calculator.  Many of these have been discontinued and some are new models. 

Picture of Calculator Current or Discontinued Comments
     TI-82  

Discontinued

  

Predecessor to the TI-83 and the upgradeable TI-83 Plus.
TI83.jpg     TI-83  

Discontinued

  

Predecessor to the upgradeable TI-83 Plus.
   TI-83 Plus Currently Available Recommended for most Math Courses at Shoreline Community College.
   TI-83 Plus Silver  

Discontinued

  

Recommended for most Math Courses at Shoreline Community College.  Has more memory and faster processor than standard TI-83 Plus.
TI-84 Plus Currently Available Recommended for most Math Courses at Shoreline Community College.  Has more memory and faster processor than TI-83 Plus, and has more Apps. 
TI-84 Plus Silver Currently Available Recommended for most Math Courses at Shoreline Community College.  Has more memory and faster processor than standard TI-84 Plus, with even more Apps.
TI-85 graphing calculator     TI-85 Discontinued Replaced by the TI-86
TI-86  

Discontinued

  

Has some usefulness, but not recommended for use in Shoreline math classes.  Would require additional time and effort to learn all of the tools. 
     TI-89  

Currently Available

 

Fantastic machine which can probably do all that a TI-84 can do and more, but has a much different interface.  Requires you to learn how to use it on your own.  If you purchase this for a statistics course, you would need to download additional statistics software. 
     TI-89 Titanium Currently Available Fantastic machine which can probably do all that a TI-89 can do and more, but has a much different interface.  Requires you to learn how to use it on your own.  If you purchase this for a statistics course, you would need to download additional statistics software. 
     TI-92 Discontinued Updated by I92 Plus
     TI-92 Plus  

Discontinued

 

Updated by the customizable TI-200 Voyager.
TI-200 Voyager Currently Available You can do so much with this, but it has far more power and many more tools than you would ever need in a math class at Shoreline.

 

 

TI-83/83 Plus

General Information

-setting contrast, modes, computations, special functions, memory, editing

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates (Intro)

-entering equations, window, zooms, trace, estimating extrema, table of values

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates (Advanced)

-graphing discontinuous functions, compound functions, inverses; using split screen

Angle Conversions

-conversion between radians and degrees and between DMS and decimal measures

Finding Minima, Maxima, and Solving Equations

-finding extrema without graphing and approximating solutions of equations

Curve Fitting

-entering data points and finding best-fitting curve

Graphing Functions in Polar Coordinates

-graphing in polar mode, zooming, tracing, converting to and from rectangular

Numerical Differentiation

-approximating derivatives using dy/dx and nDeriv

Numerical Integration

-approximating proper integrals and evaluating improper integrals

Matrix Operations

-matrix operations, multiplicative inverse, row echelon form, determinant

Annuity Computations

-calculating present and future values of annuities

Programming

-four illustrations of creating a program

Statistics on the TI-83

- entering data, creating histograms and boxplots, calculating probabilities

Copying Items

-instructions on sending information from one calculator to another

Computing Sequences and Sums

-displaying sequences and computing the sum of the terms of a sequence

TI-85

General Information

-setting contrast, modes, computations, special functions, memory, editing

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates

-entering equations, window, zooms, trace, approximating extrema

Angle Conversions

-conversion between radians and degrees and between DMS and decimal measures

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates -- advanced topics

-graphing discontinuous functions, compound functions, and inverses

Solving Equations

-using "poly", "solver", and "simult" to solve equations

Complex Numbers / Poly Function for Quadratic Equations

-introduction to complex numbers and their operations; using "poly" function

Curve Fitting

-entering data points and finding best-fitting curve

Graphing Parametric Equations

-setting mode, creating graph, zooming, tracing

Operations with Complex Numbers

-four basic operations, powers, converting between rectangular and trig form

Graphing Functions in Polar Coordinates

-graphing functions in polar mode, zooming, and tracing

Vector Computations

-adding and subtracting, scalar multiplication, cross product, norm, dot product

Matrix Operations

-matrix operations, multiplicative inverse, row echelon form, determinant

Numerical Differentiation

-computing first, second, and higher order derivatives; possible errors

Numerical Integration

-approximating proper integrals and evaluating improper integrals

Programming

-four illustrations of creating a program

Copying Items

-instructions on sending information from one calculator to another

Computing Annuities

-explains how to use the various annuity programs available through the MLC

Computing Sequences and Sums

-displaying sequences and computing the sum of the terms of a sequence

Unit Conversions

-explains how to use the built-in unit conversion function

TI-86

General Information

-setting contrast, modes, computations, special functions, memory, editing

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates (Intro)

-entering equations, window, zooms, trace, approximating extrema

Graphing Functions in Rectangular Coordinates (Advanced)

-graphing discontinuous functions, compound functions, inverses

Angle Conversions

-conversion between radians and degrees and between DMS and decimal measures

Using the TI-85 and TI-86 Poly Function

-introduction to complex numbers and use of "poly" function

Curve Fitting

-entering data points and finding best-fitting curve

Graphing Parametric Equations

-setting mode, creating graph, zooming, tracing

Graphing Functions in Polar Coordinates

-graphing functions in polar mode, zooming, and tracing

Vector Computations

-adding and subtracting, scalar multiplication, cross product, norm, dot product

Matrix Operations

-matrix operations, multiplicative inverse, row echelon form, determinant

Numerical Differentiation

-computing first, second, and higher order derivatives; possible errors

Numerical Integration

-approximating proper integrals and evaluating improper integrals

Computing Annuities

-explains how to use the various annuity programs available through the MLC

Programming

-four illustrations of creating a program

Copying Items

-instructions on sending information from one calculator to another

Computing Sequences and Sums

-displaying sequences and computing the sum of the terms of a sequence

Unit Conversions

-explains how to use the built-in unit conversion function

TI-89

General Information

-setting contrast, modes, computations, special functions, memory, editing

Graphing Functions in 2-D Rectangular Coordinates

-entering equations, window, zooms, trace, evaluating extrema, table of values

Graphing Functions in 3-D Rectangular Coordinates

-setting mode, entering equations, determining window, zooming, tracing

Solving Equations

-solving equations using "solve" and "csolve"

Curve Fitting

-entering data points and finding best-fitting curve

Vector Computations

-adding and subtracting, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products, norm, unit vector

Matrix Operations

-addition, matrix and scalar multiplication, multiplicative inverse, determinant

Differentiation

-symbolic and numeric calculation of first, second, and higher order derivatives

Integration

-definite and indefinite integration; exact and approximate results

Computing Sequences and Sums

-displaying sequences and computing the sum of the terms of a sequence

Trouble-shooting Techniques and Cute Tricks

Piecewise Functions on the TI-89

-miscellaneous collection of topics. Please contribute!

TI-92 Plus

General Information

-setting contrast, modes, computations, special functions, memory, editing

Graphing Functions in 2-D Rectangular Coordinates

-entering equations, window, zooms, trace, evaluating extrema, table of values

Graphing Functions in 3-D Rectangular Coordinates

-setting mode, entering equations, determining window, zooming, tracing

Solving Equations

-solving equations using "solve" and "csolve"

Curve Fitting

-entering data points and finding best-fitting curve

Vector Computations

-adding and subtracting, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products, norm, unit vector

Matrix Operations

-addition, matrix and scalar multiplication, multiplicative inverse, determinant

Differentiation

-symbolic and numeric calculation of first, second, and higher order derivatives

Integration

-definite and indefinite integration; exact and approximate results

Computing Sequences and Sums

-displaying sequences and computing the sum of the terms of a sequence

Trouble-shooting Techniques and Cute Tricks

-miscellaneous collection of topics. Please contribute!

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