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Originally posted by K.B.
The Ti-89 is a pretty good calculator for doing beginning Calculus problems. In fact many Advanced Placement Calculus curriculums integrate it into the course for covering topics such as functions, limits, derivatives, integration and Riemann sums. It will also do a lot of the problems in a beginning statistics course. If you don't have an idea what confidence intervals are it won't do you a lick of good however.
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If you can learn how to write the programs the calculator uses, then you are in a math class. If you use the calculator to work with you are most likely in an engineering class or business class, but not a math class. a portion of a math class may be devoted to learning to push buttons on the calculator, just like slide rules were once taught.
But I will go back to the differential equations. They are not on the calculator, might be on mathcad or something but first you have to set up the problem to begin with. In fact try doing an 8 th grade word problem with a calculator. The calculations are secondary to setting up the problem. Remember those lovely word problems? Or does it bring back nightmares?