🚀 go-pugleaf

A big advantage to the graphing calculator is student ownership.
My experience has been that when a student does not own his/her calculator,
it does not get used.

I teach a one semester course in finite math followed by a one semester
calculus course for business students.  In the first semester, I teach them
how to program the finance formulas so that they do not need the cheaper
business analyst calculators.  They also use the TI-82 in the required
statistics course.

Ben

----------Forgive your enemies but always remember their names.---------
Ben Sultenfuss
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
PO Box 13040, Stephen F. Austin State University
1936 North Street
Nacogdoches, Texas  75962-3040
OFFICE: (409) 468-1547   HOME: (409) 560-5508   FAX: (409) 468-1669
INTERNET:  F_SULTENFU@titan.sfasu.edu    or     BSULTENFUSS@SFASU.EDU
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------YOUR MESSAGE------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 08:55:25 -0500
From: berresfrd@aurora.liunet.edu
Sender: owner-graph-ti@dsmail.internic.net
I teach a one-semester calculus to business students, and am
have just begun to require that my students use TI82s.  My
students either buy their TI82s from stores or through me for about
$81.  Some students are objecting to having to spend $81 for a
calculator for one course when their other teachers already
require them to have business analyst calculators.  I would like to
know if other college teachers have found a way that is cheaper
for the student.  That is, do some colleges or math department buy
them and rent them?  Do some bookstores rent them to students,
or buy them back and sell used ones?  I would value any replies
(to berresfrd@aurora.liunet.edu) with details of how your college
handles this problem, and how well it works.  In particular, what is
the rental or buyback price?  What do you do about lost
calculators, etc.