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TI-83+ SE Allowed in AS and A2 Math exams?

kenny326

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Please someone say yes. I forked out £60 for it. Thanks.

Reply 1

mmmmmmmmmmmm

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Yes

(apart from C1, which is non-calculator). The only calculators not allowed are those which can do algebraic manipulation, like the TI-92, etc.

Good choice of calculator btw :wink:

All you need now is to get a Casio FX-991ES to complement it :biggrin:

(The best scientific calculator money can buy imo)

Reply 2

Red Thunder

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The 991-ES can do algebraic manipulation (it solves equations, does differentiation and integration as well) so u wont be able to use it in the C2, C3 or C4 exams.

Reply 3

Bape

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Lol i make do with ti82. Does the job fine. Dont think it would help much in AS, but will do in C3, checking graphs of functions, etc. Also in S1, just typing in a list of numbers and letting it calculate standard deviation, etc for you saves a little bit of time, depending on how the arrange the questions.

Reply 4

7589200

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AhmadMujtaba

The 991-ES can do algebraic manipulation (it solves equations, does differentiation and integration as well) so u wont be able to use it in the C2, C3 or C4 exams.

And yet people have used it to "cheat" their way through entire AS and A levels!

This was a hot topic sometime ago. The type of manipulation they're against is algebraic. If you look closely at the calculator it only does numerical manipulation. If I entered into many scientific calculators, a,b and c for a quadratic, they would give me the roots. So this facility is not uncommon. This function is numerical because it will not rearrange or simplfy any algebra for me. The integration or differentiation is exactly the same; no alegbra, purely numerical.

This is not to say that such a calculator is not advantageous in an exam. Graphics Calculators for example have been brilliant in modules like S1 for years now and people without them are disadvantaged.

Reply 5

mmmmmmmmmmmm

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VazzyB is right, the FX-991ES does NOT do algebraic manipulation, it can only do calculus BETWEEN BOUNDS, etc, which does not enable you to "cheat" in exams.

Reply 6

fonzievision

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Bottom line.. is the 991ES allowed or what? I just bought one literally 10 mins ago... will be annoyed if I can't use it...

Reply 7

coffeym

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Yes it is allowed. Only those which can produce ALGEBRAIC results of calculus are not allowed. Whilst this calc can, for example, integrate a function between 1 and 2, it cannot give you the indefinite integral of the function so it is allowed :smile:

Merci coffeym

I should have known!......then i could have taken 110/100 in C3 and C4!!!!!

Reply 10

Better

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Original post by coffeym

Yes it is allowed. Only those which can produce ALGEBRAIC results of calculus are not allowed. Whilst this calc can, for example, integrate a function between 1 and 2, it cannot give you the indefinite integral of the function so it is allowed :smile:

Thanks.

TI-83+ SE Allowed in AS and A2 Math exams?

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