<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Interesting article about the whole Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator scam:<br><a href="https://mic.com/articles/125829/your-old-texas-instruments-graphing-calculator-still-costs-a-fortune-heres-why">https://mic.com/articles/125829/your-old-texas-instruments-graphing-calculator-still-costs-a-fortune-heres-why</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Meanwhile you get ten times the functionality for free on <a href="https://desmos.com/">https://desmos.com/</a>:<br><a href="https://edsurge.com/news/2015-04-30-texas-district-pilots-desmos-as-alternative-to-graphing-calculators">https://edsurge.com/news/2015-04-30-texas-district-pilots-desmos-as-alternative-to-graphing-calculators</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">But +1 on approaching math programmatically with Python.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:05 PM, A. Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edu-sig@python.org" target="_blank">edu-sig@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Who needs Graphing Calculators anymore?</span><div><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Here's a couple of blog posts you may find interesting.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span><div>Let's use python instead:</div><div><a href="http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-part-ii-pythonic-calculus.html" target="_blank">http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-part-ii-pythonic-calculus.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Let's use a Computer Algebra System like SAGE instead:<br><a href="http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-part-ii-2016-sage-computer.html" target="_blank">http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-part-ii-2016-sage-computer.html</a><br><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">HTH, </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">A. Jorge Garcia </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Applied Math, Physics & CS </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><a href="http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com</a><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009</a><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">2015 NYS Secondary Math </span><a href="http://paemst.org/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">http://PAEMST.org</a><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> Nominee</span><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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