Chapter 12. The TI-84 Plus CE and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition
This chapter covers
- The unique software and hardware of the TI-84 Plus CE and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition
- Special math and arithmetic tools
- How to graph and visualize statistics on a high-resolution color screen
The first TI-83 graphing calculator rolled off Texas Instruments’ production lines in 1996. It had a 96 x 64-pixel black-and-white screen. The TI-83 Plus was introduced three years later, with the same screen, RAM, and CPU. The TI-84 Plus arrived in 2004, with a faster processor and more Archive space than the TI-83 Plus but the same monochrome LCD screen. The TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus family of calculators was ripe for some major hardware changes, and 17 years after that first TI-83 was manufactured, the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition came to partially fit the bill. In 2015, the TI-84 Plus CE arrived, with a fast processor, spacious memory, and thin, light case.
Photographed next to a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculator in figure 12.1, the new TI-84 Plus CE’s (left) and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition’s most obvious feature is a 320 x 240-pixel full-color LCD screen replacing the old monochrome LCD screen; the advantage of the high-resolution color screen for math is undeniable. Graphs are crisper and more detailed, and you can tell multiple graphed equations apart by color. You get more options for how the graphscreen looks, and you can even draw and sketch in color.