Tuesday, February 2, 2010

I have an Nspire!

So a few days ago, I finally got my Nspire! I was really excited to see the 84-silver integration pad and I enjoy having one familiar aspect to the Nspire. Over this weekend, I learned much more about my Nspire. I have been learning the basic menus and capabilities so far, but that entails quite a bit of learning. The first thing to note is the Home Menu. This menu contains the Calculator, Graphs & Geometry, Lists & Spreadsheet, Notes, Data & Statistics, New Document, My Documents, System Info, and Hints. The most useful of these has been the Notes Section. It contains Examples which outline some of the main useful features of the Nspire. The examples I have used to acclimate myself to the calculator are Getting Started, Introducing Functions, Percentage Explorer, and Linear Equations Explorer. The uses for this calculator are numerous and rather intimidating. Fortunately, Chris offered some additional examples and they have been extremely helpful in my understanding of the calculator. Additionally, our first Module has been based on some of these examples due to their usefulness. All in all, I feel that I've increased my understanding of the calculator significantly and feel that there is so much more to be learned.

1 comment:

  1. Glad to see you posting on the chosen technology! You comment that you feel pretty comfortable and at the same time realize that there is so much more to learn is what I expected at this point in the semester. Interesting that you were comforted by the 84 faceplate. I think that is what I need!

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