Part 4. Going further with the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus

This fourth and final part of this book covers some extra features and skills that although not immediately applicable to most math and science classes are still important. Your calculator is a powerful programming platform, and a broad introduction to what it can do starts off the part as chapter 11. If you have a new color-screen TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, you’ll want to read chapter 12 to learn about its unique tools and features. The final chapter of this book shows you how your calculator can connect to computers, calculators, sensors, and robots and looks forward toward the future of graphing calculators.

Part 4 starts with a chapter on programming, a condensed introduction designed to teach you enough to create simple math programs and games. I hope it will whet your appetite to explore my earlier book, Programming the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus, and to make programs of your own.

Chapter 12 provides an overview of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, the latest calculator in the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus line. It offers a color screen and new math and graphing features, and this chapter will show you how to use the new tools to their fullest.