Other tests would be “open note” so the programmable calculator wasn’t an advantage, but if you didn’t know the material already you would struggle on the test.Īnother philosophy is that we should actually be encouraging students to use every tool at their disposal to get results, that is the attitude that we need to make us effective in the real world. Heck, I had a smart watch that could store formulas too, but it took so long to program that you might as well learn the formulas, haha. In the 90s most teachers simply didn’t allow calculators on exams where rote memorization was being tested because the calculators could store text & formulas. Do you really think it’s wise to make these programmable devices less useful for students & engineers? I don’t endorse cheating, but killing off a totally legitimate feature sets a terrible precedent. certainly eliminating programability should ensure vastly reduced prevalence of cheating with calculators.įrankly I have no sympathy for cheaters if they are caught… since they do nothing but skew expectations for everyone else, and give bad teachers higher performance ratings. that locks out all programability, but even then that would be uncertain…. personally I think they should have made them such that there is an explicit test button…. Many teachers don’t bother to set the calculators into a test mode before test either meaning people like yourself could cheat with them….
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Hmm… I’ve heard of people cheating on them as well during my college tenure, someone even trasmitted test questions wirelessly with one to someone outside the test for an engineering lisensure exam. and then say that removing those features is a terrible idea. You cheated on tests with the programmable features of the calculator…. Removing stuff like this is a terrible idea. One of my best friends and I also bought a communication cable for them so we could share stuff and play multiplayer games together in the back of class. These devices were a brand new addition to the education system at the time, and teachers had no clue what we as students were doing with them. Way back when I was in high school, I used to write my own TI-83 programs to… Well, to cheat on tests.
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The latest firmware for each completely removes the capability and leaves users with no way to roll back to previous versions of the firmware.
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Texas Instruments is pulling support for C-based and assembly-based programs on both the TI-84 Plus CE - the most popular calculator for sideloading - and the TI-83 Premium CE, its French sibling. The calculators are simple, compact computing systems, and entire communities have formed over the years to celebrate the devices’ broad programming capabilities.Īll that’s about to change. Texas Instruments has long made graphing calculators beloved by school-goers and programmers alike.