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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jul 28, 2004
Pros: Easy to use; Lots of capability
Cons: Display cannot be paged- up or down; Not adequate for advanced students
Summary: Texas Instruments is one of the foremost names in electronic devices for consumers. Makers of printers, data converters, power modules, interface products, and other electronic/computer items, TI is one of the best-known names in electronics. My ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 26, 2010
Pros: Graphing ability and ease, battery life
Cons: Tracing feature (on the graph)
Summary: Personally, what do you look for in a calculator? One that can just perform basic algebra or elementary arithmetic? Hopefully not. The TI-83 Plus calculator will satisfy your mathematical needs in any level of mathematics, including college level. The ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 18, 2010
Pros: Passing math becomes fun with an easy to understand calculator.
Cons: If you step in it, it breaks.
Summary: Texas Instruments is one of the best known names in electronics. They make data converters, power modules, printers, etc. Math for me is a very difficult subject. I have the hardest time understanding graphing, squareroots, and logarithums. As a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2009
Pros: Light weight, well somewhat; large range of math & financial functions.
Cons: Expensive!
Summary: It’s time for me to head back to school, DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management that is. This time I am in pursuit of my MBA with a concentration in Networking and Telecommunications. Why pursue a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2009
Pros: Programs, Memory, Battery Life, and Many Other Capabilities
Cons: The Cost
Summary: I bought the TI-83 back in high school when I was taking a few math classes. The teacher recommended this calculator and at first I wasn’t exactly thrilled about the price. At that point in time, I could have definitely found better things to spend ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 2, 2008
Pros: Many graphing options, multiple-equation solving, alphabet, design
Cons: Screen size/quality
Summary: The 83 Plus Graphing Calculator from Texas Instruments is one of the current "most popular" calculators for highschool and college students. In the 2 or 3 years that I have owned one, the TI-83 Plus has proven to be my personal favorite by way of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 28, 2008
Pros: easy to use
has many uses
great learning tool
Cons: slightly bulky
Summary: The TI-83 Plus graphing calculator is useful at all levels of high school math. It allows the student to learn how to do the work and provides shortcuts once they have mastered it. It is also very useful on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT by ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 1, 2008
Pros: A large majority of people use and understand this calculaor.
Cons: The company makes others so that you think you need the newest one.
Summary: I have just signed up for an applied calculus class and the first day the teacher told us what calculaor would work for us. With out doubt he first mentioned the Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Graphic Calculator as the one he would purchase or rent. I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2008
Pros: Lots of options, self explanatory to use.
Cons: Its pretty expensive, not a cheap Calculator
Summary: Texas Instruments has been around for awhile, and they are known for many electronics but especially there calculators. This calculator is great. It has tons of options. You can download games on it and play them during math class. I have had this ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 17, 2008
Pros: Equipped with all the goodies you need for solving just about any math problem.
Cons: It might cost you an arm and a leg.
Summary: In this day and age it seems you can't survive any college math class without some form of aid. To try and survive on your own in a class like calculus, or algebra would be nothing far from going to war with out your gun. So in this day and age one ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 4, 2007
Pros: reliable
Cons: battery powered
Summary: The Ti calculator is a calculator that will take time to get use to. This calculator has many more buttons than your basic calculators. It allows you to type in Then sin and cosine and it will do the math for you. You can also put in a equation and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2007
Pros: -Sturdy
-Many features
-Battery Life
Cons: Lack of advanced solving capabilities
Summary: The TI-83 + Did not leave much room to improve. I have had the calculator for 7 years and it has held up like new. It still performs all that is needed. Math as far as Calculus down has not changed much over this time. I have used others as I own the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 10, 2007
Pros: It is a good calculator.
Cons: Expensive.
Summary: This calculator is a really calculator, it comes with all the directions and it even solves problems for you. If you lose you handbook you can find the catalog on the internet which is a really cool feature.I like this calculator because you can upload ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 16, 2006
Pros: Lots of customization, works great for science, math, etc., you don't really have a choice
Cons: Pricy, slow transfer rates and weak software, discontinued
Summary: I've always felt that TI has a monopoly on the calculater industry. I mean every school recommends a TI 83 plus and that seems kind of fishy to me. But I have to give credit, the TI calcs do a pretty good job and they probably are the best around given ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 11, 2005
Pros: It is faster and has more storage space.
Cons: Resolution could have been better.
Summary: When I started my classes at San Francisco State University almost a year and a half ago, I had to take lots of math classes as my major was Computer Science. I wanted to get a calculator that would make calculation in my Calculus ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 5, 2005
Pros: User friendly, and often time saving
Cons: Limited Capabilities
Summary: This happened to be the first graphing calculator I used, and in the Texas area, the choice of schools. It has quite a few handy features. It can graph, make tables, trace points, and do basic programing. It can graph and then zoom, trace, and find ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 26, 2005
Pros: Powerful, Downloadable Programs, Support
Cons: Tricky Interface
Summary: The TI-83+ is a good balance of power, ease of use and size. This handheld calculator is an industry standard and used commonly in high schools and universities across the world. The TI-83+ compares well with other, comparable graphics calculators ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 21, 2004
Pros: memory, durability, multiple functionality, games, and most of all: it's silver!
Cons: difficult to comprehend at first, slightly pricey
Summary: I bought this calculator for the Calculus class I took in high school. I was constantly borrowing other peoples’ calculators to supplement my simply scientific one throughout my Algebra and Analysis classes, and finally decided to save up some money and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 29, 2004
Pros: Powerful without being a handicap, durable
Cons: Might not be worth the extra money
Summary: When starting college, I realized that, among other things, I had forgotten my calculator back at home. I had been using a TI-85 for the four years of high school, and decided rather than have my parents ship my old one out, I’d just get a new one. The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 25, 2004
Pros: Pocket-Sized, 12mb Memory, Huge Assortment of math funtions, Available for use on many tests
Cons: 4 AAAs, Complicated, Games are a distraction
Summary: Many math classes now require the use of a graphing calculators as a supplement to their courses. Most classes actually recommend the TI-83 as the graphing calculator you should use. Its affordable and does everything you'd ever need it to do, without ... read more
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