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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2010, 08:39:36 pm »
Wow!  My math textbook this year has TI-82 problems.  You must use very new textbooks! :)
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2010, 08:40:32 pm »
My textbook features TI-81's ;) I think I win :P
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2010, 08:57:40 pm »
Yeah, even USA Today recommends the nspire (touchpad, of course). I saw it in some back to school gear guide. If all you are using your calc for is middle school/he math, the nspire is completely unnecessary. Just TI trying to make more money when the textbooks get updated.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2010, 04:31:28 am »
Over here, in some classes, sometimes they gave us notes or books from the mid '80s. In English classes, during my 3rd and 4th years of hi school (2000 through 2002), our books were from 1987 and 1988 and in Biology, we sometimes had exams from 1984 and watched documentaries from the '70s. In math and french the books were from 1999 I think, though.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2010, 08:49:06 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 15, 2010, 04:31:28 am
Over here, in some classes, sometimes they gave us notes or books from the mid '80s. In English classes, during my 3rd and 4th years of hi school (2000 through 2002), our books were from 1987 and 1988 and in Biology, we sometimes had exams from 1984 and watched documentaries from the '70s. In math and french the books were from 1999 I think, though.
This is really funny because biology is still changing (even basic questions like kingdoms classification are not fully decided), while math is essentially static (well, there are new ideas and such, but not at high-school level).
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2010, 02:00:31 pm »
Yeah I have no clue why they kept material that old at school sometimes. Granted, a lot of the things in those exams were things that did not change as much as others, but we could still notice some accuracies and the exams were too easy anyway. Also it was stupid because all questions had a letter choice called D) None of the answers above, yet it was never used at all. ???
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2010, 04:22:07 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 15, 2010, 04:31:28 am
Over here, in some classes, sometimes they gave us notes or books from the mid '80s. In English classes, during my 3rd and 4th years of hi school (2000 through 2002), our books were from 1987 and 1988 and in Biology, we sometimes had exams from 1984 and watched documentaries from the '70s. In math and french the books were from 1999 I think, though.
My math book this year is from 1980 : w00t:
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2010, 11:38:32 pm »
All my books are current. Like, past five years.

I just hate how teachers LOVE to use videos from the 70's and 80's. I mean, I know it's supposed to be 'educational' but the terrible sound, the over-the-top acting, and terrible computer graphics detract from it. Not to mention that half the stuff you already know. :P

I just program whenever we watch one of those things.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2010, 06:21:35 pm »
Lol, I thought those were better than the ones that come with my math textbooks, featuring mr. Burger.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2010, 07:10:21 pm »
Quote from: HOMER-16 on December 15, 2010, 11:38:32 pm
All my books are current. Like, past five years.

I just hate how teachers LOVE to use videos from the 70's and 80's. I mean, I know it's supposed to be 'educational' but the terrible sound, the over-the-top acting, and terrible computer graphics detract from it. Not to mention that half the stuff you already know. :P

I just program whenever we watch one of those things.

The funniest things ever are the health class videos.  I remember one video I had to watch on condom use, and the entire class was laughing through the whole thing because of the pathetic faked acting :)
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2010, 08:10:38 pm »
Haha XD

But I think outdated videos and books are usually due to poor school budget. They don't bother updating because they can't afford newer stuff. Over here they're not doing too bad, though, considering we're a socialist country, especially the Quebec part of it.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2010, 10:47:35 pm »
yeah, ordering 100s of textbooks r not cheap for the school. if there are lots of outdated books the school does not have an as large budget for spending on new editions of the same books
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2010, 11:41:19 pm »
True, though I don't quite mind old textbooks. I just hate the old videos.
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2011, 11:54:13 pm »
My pre-purchased textbooks, with addition to a shiny new (emphasis on the shiny) TI-Nspire CAS Touchpad, have finally arrived :w00t: . I'm amazed at how convenient it is to have the majority of questions actually designed specifically for readers with TI-Nspire's ;D . The prior years have featured TI-84+, although with the absence of the exact same calculator (went for a cheapo K-Mart one) I was advised to skip entire units because of this. Regardless, the Aussie Government is now placing larger focus on TI integration than graph paper . Hooray for TI!!!
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Re: New TI-Nspire? Help!!!
« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2011, 01:46:48 pm »
I just got a Ti Nspire Touchpad(non CAS), which came with OS 2.0 preinstalled. Does this mean I can get a clickpad separately and can use it instead of the annoying touchpad? I would also like to downgrade to OS 1.7 in order to use Ndless, and I know that OS 1.7 wont work with the touchpad. Is that all I would have to do to get Ndless working on my Nspire? ???

Any advice appreciated!
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