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Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Mike (Stgt) - 04-11-2012 My son was impressed when he saw me using CAS on an HP40G. At school he must use an TI84+. Now I want buy him a CAS "toy" to play at home. What is the experterts advice: TI Nspire, HP40GS or an HP50G? Or even a PC program?
Ciao.....Mike
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Marcus von Cube, Germany - 04-11-2012 You can try Bernard Parisse's XCAS on the PC which is free. As a calculator, the Voyage 200 or a used TI-92Plus (better keyboard but bulkier and less flash memory) is powerful and user friendly. Coming from a TI-84, your son should feel at home with relative ease. The TI-89 has the same software but a non alpha keyboard which makes it less comfortable to use for CAS.
A 50G has the same problems as the TI-89 (keyboard), is certainly more powerful but less easy to comprehend.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Don Shepherd - 04-11-2012 As a middle school math teacher, I would recommend the TI-NSpire color CAS. Many schools that are using the 84+ now will probably be eventually upgrading to the NSpire. If he ever gets into programming, he can choose between TI Basic or Lua on the NSpire.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Namir - 04-11-2012 I second Don Shepherd's choice. The TI NSpire CX CAS is king! Edited: 11 Apr 2012, 11:41 a.m.
What about Lua? - Namir - 04-11-2012 Don, Can you shed more light on programming with Lua on the TI NSpire CX CAS? I am very curious about it. I have also seen Lua for the iPad and iPhone.
Namir Edited: 11 Apr 2012, 11:42 a.m.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - bluesun08 - 04-11-2012 I would recommend an HP40GS. You and your son can explore this calculator together. I'm sure he will enjoy the common "game". Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Matt Agajanian - 04-11-2012 Hi all,
I've just gotta ask. Although personally I put HP calcs at the top of my list, wouldn't HP Graphing Calculators, especially the 48GX and 50G surpass TI's in many ways?
Re: What about Lua? - Don Shepherd - 04-11-2012 Namir, see this link for NSpire Lua documentation and tutorials. Not having a color NSpire, I haven't tried it myself, but I have seen some screenshots on the google NSpire forum where some folks have indeed created some Lua scripts that run on the NSpire.
Much thanks to all experts - Mike (Stgt) - 04-11-2012 Thank you for your kind help. Suppose I will get a HP40GS for me and a Nspire PC software teacher edition for my son. :)
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - bluesun08 - 04-11-2012 You are right, but the 48GX has no reasonable CAS and the 50G is IMHO for a beginner to complicated and has no reasonable manual. Re: Much thanks to all experts - bluesun08 - 04-11-2012 If you have a CAS-PC software in mind i would recommend Mathematica, Maple or GeoGebra (CAS) immediately.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - hpnut - 04-11-2012 I say go for the hp 50g. Look at this for good instructions to use the 50g.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Gilles Carpentier - 04-11-2012 Here interesting HP49/50 CAS documentation
and Edited: 11 Apr 2012, 3:45 p.m.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - George Litauszky - 04-11-2012
"These notes show how to use the hp 50g, (or hp 48gii, hp 49g, hp 49g+) and ti 89 titanium (or ti 89) calculators to solve problems in dynamics."
Re: What about Lua? - Namir - 04-11-2012 Thanks Don for the link to a wonderful site about the TI NSpire and Lua!
Namir
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Matt Agajanian - 04-11-2012 You're right! Excellent resource for the 50G. I just downloaded the modules. That way, I'll go through them slowly and methodically.
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Paul Guertin - 04-11-2012 Quote:
I recommend introducing him to Geogebra (free software for PC, available for most operating systems). The user interface is very well done, and it makes geometry come to life. Truly a wonderful math toy (although not a CAS in the traditional sense of the term).
Re: Need an experts advice: which is currently best CAS? - Stefan Katletz - 04-12-2012 Hi,
I recently switched to maxima (with wxmaxima frontend) at work. For my purpose it's a true mathematica replacement (very similar syntax), and it's free. Once more: thank you! - Mike (Stgt) - 04-16-2012 Today I saw the latest appends. Gives me some more chances to make math "sexy" enough for my son. <VBG> On this site of Colin Croft he references a manual from Renée de Graeve with an interesting aspect:
Quote: Democratisation or just undermine math teachers' authority?
Ciao.....Mike
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