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Calculator Information

Faculty will use this calculator in class for all instruction and demonstration.
Additional information about the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition and TI-84 Plus can be found on http://education.ti.com.

If the instructor has indicated that a calculator may be used on a mathematics exam, students will be required to use the Testing Center’s TI-84 Plus calculators when completing the exam in the Testing Center.

Calculator Rationale

From Beyond Crossroads: Implementing Mathematics Standards in the First Two Years of College 2006, the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), pp.55-56:

Technology enhances the learning of mathematics, when used appropriately as a tool, to achieve the following:

• explore new concepts and discover patterns
• examine, organize, analyze, and visualize real-world data
• develop understanding of mathematical ideas
• make connections among and between mathematical ideas
• provide a visualization of mathematical models
• provide symbolic, graphical, and/or numerical evidence to support or dispel student-formulated conjectures

In addition, technology helps students document the validity of their mathematical/critical thinking process, facilitating and enriching the learning processes and the development of problem-solving skills.

Students will be expected to use technology to do the following:

• enhance their understanding of mathematics
• discover mathematical concepts and patterns
• perform mathematical tasks
• visualize different representations of the same mathematical concept
• formulate and test conjectures about mathematical concepts and procedural rules
• communicate mathematical information and ideas.

For a complete copy of Beyond Crossroads, please access http://www.beyondcrossroads.com/ where you may download the PDF file.

Position Statements on the use of technology in mathematics instruction are available from AMATYC at:

• http://www.amatyc.org/documents/Guidelines-Position/TechnologyUse.htm
• http://www.amatyc.org/documents/Guidelines-Position/Tech-Use.htm