23 Dec
2012
23 Dec
'12
4:46 a.m.
On Dec 22, 2012, at 21:17, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/22/2012 05:59 PM, James Lynch wrote:
It's all because of the highly successful money-extraction
machine known as "standardized testing". The only
graphing calculators allowed in the room during the
SAT are the TI ones (though I don't honestly recall
having needed anything more advanced than square
root on the SAT; the G'RE doesn't allow calculators at
all). As a result, TI can get away with selling the same
machine they were selling 10 years ago (with minor tweaks)
for the same price as 10 years ago.
- Dave
To me, it's odd that hp still makes financial
rpn calculators but not scientific ones.
That is odd--the kids today seem to get the TI graphing calculators. I don't know
what a current HP calculator with the same functionality would be.