Texas Instruments TI-34II Explorer Plus Scientific Calculator

Pros: Bang for the buck, durability, functionality
Cons: Overkill for bookkeeping, cover sticks

The Texas Instruments TI-34 scientific calculator has proven to be one my best buys. This highly underrated little device has saved many hours of laborious and potentially error-wrought bookkeeping and numerical base conversion. For those who do no more...

Pros: Screen size and readability, durability, thoughtfulness of features, strength, functionality, battery life
Cons: Plastic cover, needs an "off" button, coloring/font on some keys, arrows should be bigger

Introduction I was sick and tired of having to buy a new three-dollar calculator every week because it kept breaking. By buying a new calculator evey week, I was not being cost-efficient. I also needed to take a state test (including ...

Pros: Excellent feature set, great price.
Cons: Redesigned cover harder to use than old design.

I'm currently the proud owner of my second TI-34 scientific calculator, since my original one wore out in the late 1990s - after about 15 years of use! Yes, these things are built to last.

Durability aside, the TI-34 offers an...

Pros: Good price, reliable, energy efficient, user friendly
Cons: limited memory (compared to graphing calculators), therefore it is not ideal for accounting

A growing number of my colleagues/follow students have started using the Texas Instruments TI-34 cal ...

Pros: A lot of functionality for not a lot of cash
Cons: Advanced functions can be a pain to use

I bought the TI-34II to to help out in my college Intermediate Algebra class, and the thing has been wonderful. It's absolutely loaded with features - probably one of the best you're going to get without buying a graphing calculator. It has a 2-lin ...

Pros: Solar and battery powered. Two line display.
Cons: No buttons for Trig functions.

I purchased the TI 34 II because I needed a simpler calculator for everyday use in some of my classes here at school. (I also own a TI 92, which I will review in the future.)

I must admit, I purchased this calculator partly based on its...

Pros: Two-line display, nice looking
Cons: Buttons do not always respond when pushed, leading to inaccurate results

This calculator has buttons that fail to respond more often than not. When doing calculations for an ...

Pros: Everything about it!!!
Cons: Durability-not so well.

I am in 7th grade, and life wthout the TI-34II explorer would be like life without the sun-you need it! For starters, this thing is useful for normal math. It has a 2-line display so you can see what you're doing, and it says if you're doing something wrong right then. Then again, it does the order of operations in the PEMDAS order. It can also do 'Greatest common Factor' and 'Least Common Multiple' and exponents and powers of 10. You can save variables as A,B,C,D, and E. It can do integers. Let me tell you, this calculator is the beat for any junior high, higschool, or college student. And with the $19 price tag, our school made it a requirment for junior high students. The solar panel is included, and works great. The durability isn't so fine-I dropped it on the first day! Also, the dust gets trapped under the screen and won't come out unless you hit it and throw it (But that broke my old one) and it gets very annoying. Also, the cover doesn't snap on so easily. But for the price-$19-Anyone who doesn't have on is left in the dust.