I finally learned something new in school. Thoug it's preety boring and pointless. I learned how to program for calculators. I can finally write my own programs. Even though I will never do that.
How did they teach you how to write programs with a caculator? Was it one of the those things that had a USB with it?
No actualy it was in my math class, my math teacher taught us how to program the calculator so we don't have to memorize any formulas instead just have them into our calculator. For example (don't no if you know this) the quadratic fomula. Instead of writing it all out, we go to are programs folder in our calculator select that program, enter in the value for: B, A, and C and it gives us the answer and the discrimenit. And no we just used the calculator and nothing else to program it.
my calc teacher taught me how to do that. unfortunately, in calc II, we get no calculators, so i've got to have it all in my head. storing on the calculator may make things more convenient, but you really aren't learning as much....except when finals time comes. then you have convenience in time-saving stuff.
as you study higher math, you get calculators less and less. in calc I, all the tests had a calculator and no calculator portion. in calc II, it's all no calculator. i fear calc III >.>
Im in pre-calc and we are using calculators for everything. Also in calculus 1 people say they still use them. So it might just be where you live.
i never said i couldn't use them in precalc or calc, i said that above that, they're not allowed. i think that's a general course requirement.
yeah, i can use mine sometimes and not others. im doing higher maths. (im in 5th year -- thats my 12th year of being in school -- been in school since i was 5) YESSS!! 1 more year to go, after this one, then a gap year then uni heres some info: here and here
