Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView Scientific Calculator

It is Texas instrument. The only way to go for cost.

Very good school calculator youtube can teach you how to use it, wish it had a back light.

Child needed for 7th Advanced Math and beyond.

Bought this for my grandson & its perfect for him.

Highly recommended easy to learn and use

Bought for my 8th grade daughters math class. The calculator was very easy to learn, for her to use and helpful for class.

Product was not new. Package was open cut when I got it out the box.

I am using this calculator for my Finance class for my Masters Degree which by the way is an approved and required calculator by the University for this class due to the 5 white buttons we are using, and it does not COMPLETELY clear out your work. Professors even mention you have to actually RESET the entire calculator AFTER every problem. It continuously gives you different numbers when entering the same numbers in an equation even after resetting. Trying to solve mile long equations with this calculator is beyond frustrating and is causing students who use this calculator to fail their proctored exams. Horrible technology!!!

I used this calculator to write my Society of Actuary (SOA) exam-P, IFM and STAM. This is one of the SOA recommended calculator. I used a lot it function in the pragmatic test center. I recommend to buying at least 5-6 month before the exam date and use manual for practice. Otherwise, You will write your exam without knowing its function which kills your important time in the exam center. Also, better idea to share experience with your friend regarding how to use calculator.

This is a good calculator at a good price, BUT you should only buy it if youre required to have this particular model--or if better models are outlawed by your teacher. I will explain that more below: Its dual powered by solar and CR 2032 3V battery, which is nice. Ive had mine 5 years and havent yet had to change the battery. (Changing the battery requires unscrewing the back panel and taking the calculator apart, by the way! While it doesnt have a CAS or graphing capabilities and cant solve systems of equations or evaluate integrals and derivatives, etc.,this is a fairly advanced machine... the data list functions are sophisticated and the multi-view feature is something not often found on calculators at this price point. I use this calculator solely because it is the best calculator approved for actuarial examinations. Outside of the fact that it doesnt have TVM keys like a financial calculator (necessary for 1-2 exams out of the series of 9-10 actuarial exams)... this is, by far, the best calculator that is approved by the SOA. ******** HOWEVER, if youre looking in this price range and you dont have onerous restrictions on what youre allowed to use, there are calculators at this price point that are definitely superior! ********* (1.) For about the exact same price as the TI-30XS MultiView, there is a Casio model (I think its called ES-115 Plus) thats designed in Japan with way more features, and I think its easier to use too. Its very direct, with lots of shortcut keys. It manipulates matrices and can transpose and invert and rref to solve linear equations. It also can evaluate derivatives and integrals numerically. Besides graphing, this Casio will do exactly the same things of calculators ten times its cost. Its a FAR superior machine than the MultiView for the same price. Period. (2.) For just $5 more than the MultiView and Casio, you can get the TI-36X Pro. It doesnt have graphing capabilities, but besides graphing, it does just about everything--and more in some cases--than TIs more expensive lineup of calculators (starting at TI 83). The MultiView is maybe good for middle school; whereas, the TI-36X Pro (and the Casio) could reasonably be used throughout high school and college studies and even through graduate mathematics, statistics, and sciences. The 36X Pro isnt as direct or fast as the Casio, but has many menus which can be accessed. You could muck your way through using the TI more than you can with the Casio, imo. There are about 100 stored constants (things like the speed of light, gravitational force, mass of an electron, etc.). There are various built-in probability distributions (binomial, geometric, etc.) It can do unit/dimensional analysis (although entering units is a pain) and it can do conversions too. Its very similar to the Casio I mentioned above. The major differences would be the TI has a lot of menus to access its capabilities and the Casio has shortcut keys. The 36X Pro is also a tad more expensive.