Casio FX-115MS Plus Scientific Calculator
The Fx 115 MS is the most powerful non-graphing calculator I have used. It is ideal for non Math students who are required to take an intermediate college algebra class. Unfortunately the single sheet of instructions are insufficient for the type of student that would benefit the most from it. I have put up a web site for my intermediate algebra students that tries to explain to them how to take advantage of its many features: http://faculty.ccc.edu/jnadas/graduate/CASIO.fx115ms.HTM
This powerful non-graphing calculator has over 300 functions, a two line display, and you pretty much enter algebraic expressions as they’re written (just be careful to use parenthesis and order of operations). An overlooked feature is its dual power mode. If there’s enough room light it runs off solar power, preserving batteries. No worries of the juice going during your final. (I’ll take this feature this over extraneous, additional, functions of that new Sharp calculator.) This calc has MORE than enough in terms of functions, power, and various equasion, complex number, and statistical modes. In terms of pure number crunching power, this calculator blows everything else away in its price range, except perhaps the latest Sharp. A co-worker who has a Master’s in math took a look at this and told me it’s all the calculator you need, all the way up through graduate school.
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