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by prime17569 1084 days ago
This is almost like U.S. high schools, which almost exclusively require students to have Texas Instruments TI-84 series calculators in math class.
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I had a TI-85, which was just a little different than the required calculator and didn't do everything quite like the book described. That was good. It meant that I had to learn to program it to do the things it didn't do like the 5 number summary and something else. Which meant I actually learned that stuff pretty well.
With a student:teacher ratio around 30:1 I'm not sure what the alternative would be