Ti-89

[RPcLA]

Will there be a course where a Ti-89 will be useful?


Is the Ti-89 just overkill?

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[njac]

We had an intro to kinetics class where we used graphing calculators, but otherwise it is too much.

That said, I <3 my TI-89 like whoa.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

It was very useful in medical ethics and public health. If it weren't for TI-83 breakout and tetris, I'd have been up boredom's creek without a paddle.

 

[njac]

There is truth in what he speaks.

You didn't have the drug wars game? A couple of us resurrected that from high school.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

There is truth in what he speaks.

You didn't have the drug wars game? A couple of us resurrected that from high school.

It was too easy. All you had to do was sell negative amounts of drugs and you'd be a millionaire in seconds.

 

[IrishHammer]

Will there be a course where a Ti-89 will be useful?


Is the Ti-89 just overkill?

I spent the last three years of my life working as a math tutor, and even from a math standpoint, I think the TI-89 is a niche product. It's great for engineering or computational mathematics students, but for students going into any other field, you really don't need anything beyond the TI-83 or TI-84.

 

[njac]

True. I preferred my TI-85 in some instances, but there were times in calculus that I was glad I had my 89

 

[charfdorn]

My school allows only one calculator on all quizzes and tests. I have a TI-89 (and I have never needed all that extra stuff, btw - total overkill to the 83/84/85/86/whatever) and an 83 and a Casio scientific calculator... and they are all junk now. Nice.

 

[npage148]

We were only allowed a 4 function calculator for our test because that is what the board allows for the wet lab. I guess if you were lazy, you could program all your PK equations into the Ti-89 and go that way. It's probably overkill.

 

[MountainPharmD]

Unless you are a rocket scientist, particle or theoretical physicist, or mad genius the Ti-89 is overkill.

 

[type b pharmD]

after years building my TI programming skills, all is lost .. my school mandates a $10 casio 4 function pos .. 🙁

yeah the ti-89 is unnecessary to complete your classes.. it may be necessary to pass the time as wvu mentioned.

 

[genesis09]

I used a scientific calculator for all my courses. You were not allowed to use a graphing calculator. They did not specify which scientific calculator though.

 

[KARM12]

We weren't allowed to use graphing calculators in pharm school. They even gave us a specific list of scientific calculators that we were allowed to use.

 

[Sparda29]

I love that calculator, it's too bad they only allow scientific calculators or below. I guess they don't want people programming their calculators with equations.

 

[SHC1984]

Will there be a course where a Ti-89 will be useful?


Is the Ti-89 just overkill?

its needed in Calculus II, but not all pharmacy school require you take that.

 

[Maxpwer222]

It was useful in Calc II and III when I did not want to work out a derivative/integral. Ti-89 that is.

 

[aboveliquidice]

Who here had a math professor that would require exact answers for every calculation - but then tossed e or pi in every single problem??? It pretty much ensured every question was done by hand... unless you had a TI-92 or 89 with symbolic math!!!

Oh, how I loved thee... I still have it - but out school made us use very basic calculators for class. Thus preventing the inevitable cheating that was associated with the TI-8x / 9x series.

 

[charfdorn]

It was useful in Calc II and III when I did not want to work out a derivative/integral. Ti-89 that is.

I actually used mine to teach me parts of calc that I forgot... you know, plug in a derivative, that gives you the answer, and then you're like... yeah, I remember that now!

 

[Maxpwer222]

I actually used mine to teach me parts of calc that I forgot... you know, plug in a derivative, that gives you the answer, and then you're like... yeah, I remember that now!

haha, I know right! I always used it for the derivative/integral of sin/cos because I could never remember which one made it negative.

 

[grizzlesgrizzlies]

Oh, how I loved thee... I still have it - but out school made us use very basic calculators for class. Thus preventing the inevitable cheating that was associated with the TI-8x / 9x series.

in my school they handed out their calculators for us to use on exams. it was sickening the amount of cheating going on in my class. its not that hard to do when there's about 240+ of us stuffed in a lecture hall that can fit ~270-300.
I think at least an eighth of our class cheated on exams at one point or another. the terrible part was that the admin. wouldn't do too much about it fearing a lawsuit. it was ridiculous

 

[Farmercyst]

I paid $50 for my 89 and it's collecting dust on my shelf as we speak. They hand out calculators for our exams and nothing outside of that is allowed.

 

[rjk]

my TI-82 got me through engineering school.
so I would say an 89 is way excessive

 

[SpirivaSunrise]

I have an 82, 83 and 89 somewhere back home. Think they're in a box in the garage. Never busted one out in Rx school.

What do you think they'll be worth in 50 years?

Granted, my Dad traded his calculator coming out of college (with very basic +, -, /, * type functions) with his roommate for his first car...

 

[aboveliquidice]

I have an 82, 83 and 89 somewhere back home. Think they're in a box in the garage. Never busted one out in Rx school.

What do you think they'll be worth in 50 years?

Granted, my Dad traded his calculator coming out of college (with very basic +, -, /, * type functions) with his roommate for his first car...

I dunno... but in Back To the Future 2 - the "Dust Buster" was worth a pretty penny. Hold on to 'em 👍