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Hello! I am a highschool teacher who is looking for a VERY simple scientific calculator for a student who still struggles to use a basic calculator for typical math operations. I know this is a big ask and a calculator tailored to a particular student definitely doesn't exist but I'm hoping to get as close as possible! This student has some cognitive challenges which affect their processing and memory so the following would be of great help:
-If possible, different coloured buttons for each section of buttons on the calculator similar to some I've seen (i.e., basic math operations being grouped as one colour while another section is differently coloured)
Thank you in advance, anonymous people in this calculator forum! I know this is quite the oxymoron for asking for a "simplified" and "scientific" calculator after all! If it were up to me, this student would be on a much more simplified curriculum but they are already back a grade level and there are no special education teachers at my school to can implement such modifications.
Has anyone here got away with a simple scientific calculator for their FAA exam? Mine has the various log, trig functions and simple memory (TI-30 SLR+). No programmable functions on mine and is solar powered so it doesn't retain anything. If this is a big deal I may have to go get a simple one with only the simple algebraic functions. Thanks.
The important thing is to be familiar with the calculator. I used my (aging)(ancient) HP 41 CX that got me through college, because I still use the statistics and trig functions at work. I was nice and pulled the batteries out to placate them. Dad gum machine just keeps chugging along . . . .
Generally I'd say you are safe but it will depend on the testing center. Even when I brought a Sporty's E6B calculator, they examined it very carefully. They also sent me back to my car to put my phone away.
I think the FAA prefers "rules of thumb" rather than more exact calculations (for example, sin x x for small x). Using a scientific calculator and deriving from first principles might cause some deviations from their own answers . Rules of thumb are good for quick decision making, maybe that's their rationale.
Yeah luckily it didn't come to that - this was two years ago for my PPL written. There is a limited E6B-like calculator included in the test software itself that I was unfamiliar with. Before causing a stink, I asked them to let me see and use this calculator before I started the official test. They did, and I found it to be adequate and had no issues on the test.
Yes, the test has a built in calculator. The last test I took was the commercial. I don't remember needing to use the calculator. What I do remember is a number of really poorly written questions, and a number of questions on NDBs. Are there any NDBs left?
This wikiHow teaches you how to master the basics of using a scientific calculator. This article will cover the basic operation of the calculator, using functions, and graphing. There are a lot of features to learn about, but getting the basics down will allow you to access pretty much any function! Scientific calculators are must-have tools for math classes like Algebra, Trigonometry, and Geometry. Compared to basic calculators, scientific calculators have more advanced math operations.
The CLEP scientific calculator can be used to solve implicit and explicit equations. To pass the quiz, you'll need to use the CLEP scientific calculator or your own scientific calculator to find the variable x in several practice problems.
To better understand scientific calculators are used to solve equations, watch the related lesson, Solving Equations on the CLEP Scientific Calculator. This lesson will educate you through the following objectives:
Lets start with the display, it had to be able to show a reasonable number of digits plus the signs, decimal point and exponent of scientific notation. I considered using small 7 segment displays, but I couldn't get them because nobody in my area sold them, and I couldn't import them either. That's why i choose the nokia 5110 lcd display.
I used a stm32f030r8 as the main microcontroller. It's a simple ARM cortex-m0 with no floating point unit. It has 64K bytes of flash memory and 8K bytes of ram. But it also has other interesting features, like SPI, USART, Timers, and Direct Memory Access (DMA) that I used in the graphics and the matrix keyboard.
But, those kind of calculator were and are still expensive. So, if i can't afford one, I'm going to build one. Soon after, I realized the magnitude of the project, so I decided to build something simple but yet challenging. And after some research about old scientific calculators I came across into the Sinclair Scientific. It really amazed me how despite the small amount of resources, Sinclair was able to build a scientific calculator. With only two value registers, RNP input and limited accuracy but yet functional. This set the reference design for the project, and with that in mind I started to make a component list.
Chemistry is a quantitative science and many of the calculations that we do as chemists require adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing extremely large and extremely small numbers. Think of Avogadro's number, 6.022 1023. That number will never fit on the display of a "regular" calculator. That's why we use scientific calculators that have scientific notation mode (SCI mode).
I often hear students talking about how their "powerful" graphing calculator is "smarter" than their simple plain scientific calculator (like the TI-30x).Some students will work a problem over and over and then conclude that their calculator is just plain wrong. Then they want to use their "good" calculator for the exam and not their "dumb" one. HOLD ON! It isn't the calculator with the problem - it's actually you and your failure to learn how to properly use the tools of the trade so to speak.
When your calculator is turned on, the default setting (unless you've changed it) is for floating point math and display (this is generally true for both graphing and scientific calculators). This means that the display will show any number as a decimal number until the display cannot physically show the number. Then and only then will the calculator resort to SCI mode automatically (showing exponential notation). Most simple scientific calculators have 10-digit displays. This can lead to BIG errors if you are not careful.
Many students will write down a number as seen from the calculator display. Then when they need the number back, they re-enter it. This can lead to BIG errors (not always, but CAN).. Here's an example of what COULD happen to you if you are not careful.
...which if I just copy it down somewhere is VERY WRONG. It's actually 20% off and could be as much as 50% off. What's sad (for those of you who cleared the display) is that the valid and accurate number is still in there, it's just that the DISPLAY can't show more than 10 digits. And it will show all it can before resorting to SCI mode when the calculator is in FLOAT mode. As long as I don't clear the display, that number will still work - the "2" and the "5" are still there, you just can't SEE them (try it, now multiply by 10, by 10 again. You'll bring those numbers back on to the display). It will even work if I store the number in a memory location. Storing numbers into memory locations on calculators is the best method for keeping a number for future use - no user error on the storage part of the process.
Here's your user error: After I write the number down (truncated as shown on the display above) and then re-enter it with a 20% error built in. Why? Because I never saw the missing 25 after the 1. How can the calculator be right when you clear the display and re-enter a wrong number?
I mentioned this at the first of the course when making a scientific calculator a course requirement. That requirement also means that you must know HOW to operate your calculator so that you get ACCURATE numbers out of it. Put your calculator in SCI mode and ALL the significant digits will show no matter what (see the display below for the same calculation as the one shown above). This also helps you in that you will not have to manually count "1, 2, 3, 4, ..." how many places over is the decimal. Let your calculator do what it is made to do. Put it in SCI mode.
There are dozens of decisions to be made while constructing calculator, hence the Java programming language does not have any out of the box evaluation support. If you wish to have operations with their standard meaning, then use some library. If you wish to have some non-standard behaviour, then write your own grammar. If you will use brackets, than pull-push automaton will be needed to implement it, probably in conjunction with LL1 grammar.
When I was learning myself Java, I also run into this problem and I have solved it by inputting the program as windows calculator. The program contained one register which aggregated the current result and after each operation the program queried user for the next one (you can do this also using very simple parser - but remember, the calculator will not recognize priorities of operators).
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