TI Navigator Makes Calculators Wireless
If you are a loyal reader to this site, then you might of been on of the ones in high school who was programing and playing games on your calculator. Heck you may of even created a chat program that worked from calculator to calculator via the data cord named Whisper 1.0. Well, if you meet that demographic have we got some good news for you. Texas Instruments is releasing an add-on to make your calculator able to communicate with others wirelessly. Okay, so it’s main use is for the teacher, but who says you can’t play multi-player Tetris between classes? It will allow the teacher to view a student’s calculator in real-time to help out with math problems. Remember how you had to show all of your work for full credit? This will allow you to send in your work wirelessly to the teacher, how’s that for 21st century? What’s all of this going to cost? The base cost is $400 for 4 students with no teacher software, and the deluxe bundle with 32 students is $8495. Your tax dollars hard at work.
[via CrunchGear]
hey I hate to break the news, but this is not new tech. the ti navigator system has been around for a while. my math professor at purdue has been using this for a while now. We used the system all year long this year, plus he’s had it for even longer. The wireless modules connect to his tablet PC via some jerry rigged system involving a pc card adapter and some other kind of hookups, i’m not sure how he did it.
the big thing we used it for was doing graphing and showing student responses to the problems.