TI-89 Graphing Calculator For Dummies

Book Description:

* Shows science, math, and engineering students and professionals how to make the most of this top-of-the-line graphing calculator
* Describes step by step how to harness the calculator's 3D graphing capabilities, advanced built-in functions, USB connectivity, and 16 preloaded applications, including calculus and electrical engineering tools
* The book's accessible, plain-English explanations are a must for users who find TI's instruction manual difficult to slog through
* Since students can now use the TI-89 and other graphing calculators on AP exams, the SAT, and other standardized tests, this book will get them up to speed quickly
* Texas Instruments owns over 95 percent of the graphing calculator market




Download Description:

Shows science, math, and engineering students and professionals how to make the most of this top-of-the-line graphing calculator Describes step by step how to harness the calculator's 3D graphing capabilities, advanced built-in functions, USB connectivity, and 16 preloaded applications, including calculus and electrical engineering tools The book's accessible, plain-English explanations are a must for users who find TI's instruction manual difficult to slog through Since students can now use the TI-89 and other graphing calculators on AP exams, the SAT, and other standardized tests, this book will get them up to speed quickly Texas Instruments owns over 95 percent of the graphing calculator market



From the Back Cover:

Get up to speed easily with your TI-89 Titanium

Use advanced science and math applications, PDA functions, and more

Your TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator is an amazing tool, and this plain-English guide gets you up and running on all the things it can do, quickly and easily. Find out how to use the preloaded applications, let your calculator double as a PDA, do algebra, trigonometry, and calculus, graph and analyze functions, and much more!

Discover how to:

* Use the keyboard, menus, and catalog
* Find absolute values
* Graph and analyze functions
* Add text to a graph
* Enter data using formulas
* Deal with vector calculus

The Dummy Way

* Explanations in plain English
* “Get in, get out” information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun



About the Author:

C. C. Edwards has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and is currently teaching mathematics on the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has been using technology in the classroom since before Texas Instruments came out with its first graphing calculator, and she frequently gives workshops at national and international conferences on using technology in the classroom. She is the author of TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies and TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies and she has written 40 activities for the Texas Instruments Explorations Web site. She was an editor of Eightysomething!, a newsletter that used to be published by Texas Instruments. She still hasn’t forgiven TI for canceling that newsletter.
Just barely five feet tall, CC, as her friends call her, has three goals in life: to be six inches taller, to have naturally curly hair, and to be independently wealthy. As yet, she is nowhere close to meeting any of these goals. When she retires, she plans to become an old-lady carpenter.