Casio Graphing Scientific Calculator Fx-9860GIII Comes with MicroPython

Post by Ecco » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC

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Hi! NumWorks founder here. First of all thanks for the mention. Also your calculator’s battery dying that early is not normal, I’m very sorry to hear that. We’re doing everything we can to preserve battery life (namely, low charge current, no over-charging, and very low discharge current), and our most pessimistic estimates give us at least 10 years of battery life. If you send us an email at contact@numworks.com I’m…

Congratuallations on achieving a successfull business and helping turn Python into what looks to be the next BASIC.

Post by donkeyd » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

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I think your position is unrealistic for an education setting. You’re proposing working computers and smartphones for every desk and student. Computers and apps are not standardised at all. Disparity between them and compatibility issues are a massive contention when you have lots of people to educate. Not only that, even today here in the UK, not every student has a smartphone or a home computer so you’re instantly…

My professor at the University used to let me use an HP Prime emulator on my laptop for tests, and to some of my peers, they would be allowed to use HP Prime emulators on their phones, it's really difficult to cheat on the kinds of tests where you need these calculators, you can't simply copy your classmate's answer and be done with it, you need procedure to back that up. And it was $15 the emulator app by hp was wor…

Post by lostapathy » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

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I think your position is unrealistic for an education setting. You’re proposing working computers and smartphones for every desk and student. Computers and apps are not standardised at all. Disparity between them and compatibility issues are a massive contention when you have lots of people to educate. Not only that, even today here in the UK, not every student has a smartphone or a home computer so you’re instantly…

Every kid at my children's school have a Chromebook. The exact same model. Calculators are really relics of a bygone era and it is time education realizes there is greater value in embracing better tech than trying to stop a bogeyman.

Post by rhexs » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

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I'm liking the Casio FX-115ES PLUS rev 2 ($14.50), because it simplifies rationals and has LCM, GCD and factorization. For example, when you enter sin(60), it gives sqrt(3)/2, enter 1/(1+sqrt(3)) gives (sqrt(3)-1)/2 or enter sqrt(120) gives 2*sqrt(30). https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... This is helpful for my kid's math class. You wouldn't buy a textbook from Texas would you? So why buy a…

Post by BeetleB » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

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I think your position is unrealistic for an education setting. You’re proposing working computers and smartphones for every desk and student. Computers and apps are not standardised at all. Disparity between them and compatibility issues are a massive contention when you have lots of people to educate. Not only that, even today here in the UK, not every student has a smartphone or a home computer so you’re instantly…

You are saying that there exists a segment of the college student population that will spend 100$ on a scientific calculator but does not own a smartphone?