While it’s no secret that Texas Instruments has a new TI-84 Plus C Color graphing calculator coming out later this spring, they are finally making an official announcement to the press soon. A few hours from now, TI will distribute the press release that follows about what we can expect on the new TI-84 Plus C. If you have been following this story on Tech Powered Math, you are largely familiar with the overall story.
UPDATE: If you are interested in the TI-84 Plus C, please check out my TI-84+C Review. I was fortunate to receive a pre-release device from TI for review purposes. After word broke last week of a possible new graphing calculator from Texas Instruments, I reached out to TI, asking if they’d be willing to make any on the record comment about the rumors. Today, I heard from Texas Instruments Digital Content Manager Dale Philbrick, who gave me the first official public comments from Texas Instruments about their new device, the TI-84+ C graphing calculator.
Far from a hoax, the TI-84 Plus C is a real calculator. Check out my TI-84 Plus CE Review. UPDATE: 11:55 a.m. I have been contacted by a source who has worked for Texas Instruments and has asked to remain anonymous. He has provided credible information that the TI-84+ C Silver Edition is, in fact, a real calculator in development by Texas Instruments. You can see the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition information request form here.
I wanted to give a shout out for a new project by Christopher Mitchell, or Kerm Martian as he’s known online. Mitchell is the man behind Cemetech, a site devoted to programming graphing calculators. He does magical things with graphing calculators, finding ways to use them that the engineers at Texas Instruments and Casio surely never expected them to be used. If you’ve followed Tech Powered Math for a while, you may remember my stories about some of Mitchell’s achievements, including Doom on the TI-Nspire and turning the TI-84+ into a web browser.
Operating System: iOS (iPad) Age range: 5-8 years old (Marble Math Junior) and 9-12 (Marble Math) Cost: $1.99 (as of 9/17/12) I haven’t done an app review in a while, but at the request of Artgig Studio, I’ve been taking a look at Marble Math. The simple concept behind this app reminds me a lot of the 1980’s classic game, Marble Madness. However, unlike that game, where you manipulated a marble through a series of obstacles with a trackball, this game requires you to guide your marble to whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and money in order to solve math problems.
The last month has been absolutely crazy for me, with trips across the country and moving into a new home. However, as the start of the new school year arrives, I hope to pick up the pace again. In the next few weeks, I’m planning to update my calculator recommendations for students, a post on the back to school sales on technology, and the release of my next couple of books.
I’m one of the first to hop on board the Google Nexus 7 train. If you aren’t familiar with it, this is the first tablet from Google, manufactured by Asus. Over the last few years, Google has had a history of partnering with handset makers with its Nexus line of phones. The Nexus line always gets the best new operating system updates of Android first, and the Nexus 7 is no exception, as it ships with Android 4.
This is a very unusual post for Tech Powered Math, but I’m going to be “off the grid” for a couple of weeks. I want to explain why because I’ll be slower than usual at responding to emails, Tweets, etc. In a few days, I’ll be flying from St. Louis to Honduras as part of a mission trip with my church here in Peoria, Imago Dei Church. We are joining up with a ministry that is based permanently in La Esperanza, Honduras called Mercy International.
Device: iPad/iPhone/iPod Age: High School Cost: [Free][1] Mathtoons Logarithms Lite is one of the most unusual yet catchy math education apps I’ve ever come across. It is a tutorial on how to go between the exponential and logarithmic forms of an equation. Users are instructed by cartoon characters that reminded me a bit of the Phineas and Ferb animation style. The animation is high quality, and so are the voice actors.
I finally got a chance to do a LeapPad review. It’s something I’ve wanted to take a look at for a while, and I finally realized that one of my friends has one. He was easily persuaded to loan it to me for a few days. The LeapPad has been a hot toy since last Christmas time, when it became difficult for a lot of people to get their hands on one.
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