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morethanpretty · 11-06-2006, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

The idea that you can USE a calculator on the SAT horrifies me. More than the above marrying a plastic sex doll story.

Why does that horrify you? You are only allowed to use certain calcs. and they make sure that you clear your memory before the test. I thought about it and I don't think that a calc. is really all that useful on the SAT, but for me and my sis it would be a comfort to have it. Without the calc. we are both pretty nervous even when we know we don't really need it.

9th Engineer · 11-06-2006, 01:15 PM

I think they let you use fancy calculators at least partially to throw off unprepared students. The SAT isn't so much about getting the answer right to a problem, it's seeing the trick they put into the problem to make you THINK you know the answer when you really goofed it up. So buying anything more than a basic +-*/ type for it is wasted money.

morethanpretty · 11-06-2006, 03:08 PM

Our HS provided TIs for our use all year. My sis, and I both bought a T1 for our college math courses, I don't really need mine but I prefer the layout and am familiar w/ the way it works. My sis needs her...she's in advance mathmatics and is planning on teaching HS advance math.

Clodfobble · 11-06-2006, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty

and they make sure that you clear your memory before the test.

Just for the record, in high school I programmed my TI-85 to read "memory cleared" when the user entered the appropriate command, but not actually clear the memory.

But don't worry wolf, it's like 9th said: the questions nowadays are such that the calculator is no more than a mundane convenience--if you really need it, you won't be scoring well anyway.

footfootfoot · 11-06-2006, 08:41 PM

Clodfobble is a calculator ninja!

Clodfobble · 11-06-2006, 09:33 PM

It was a team effort with several friends. Honestly, we were such nerds we weren't even doing it to cheat, it was born out of pure laziness. I absolutely hated solving the quadratic equation, and I got tired of having to re-program it back in every time I took a test.

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9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	I think they let you use fancy calculators at least partially to throw off unprepared students. The SAT isn't so much about getting the answer right to a problem, it's seeing the trick they put into the problem to make you THINK you know the answer when you really goofed it up. So buying anything more than a basic +-*/ type for it is wasted money. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

11-06-2006, 03:08 PM	#108
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	Our HS provided TIs for our use all year. My sis, and I both bought a T1 for our college math courses, I don't really need mine but I prefer the layout and am familiar w/ the way it works. My sis needs her...she's in advance mathmatics and is planning on teaching HS advance math. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

11-06-2006, 08:41 PM	#110
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Clodfobble is a calculator ninja! __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-06-2006, 09:33 PM	#111
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	It was a team effort with several friends. Honestly, we were such nerds we weren't even doing it to cheat, it was born out of pure laziness. I absolutely hated solving the quadratic equation, and I got tired of having to re-program it back in every time I took a test.

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