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TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator For Dummies

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I bought this book to supplement the CD that came with the calculator. Of course the pamplet that comes with the calculator is not worth mentioning. Great book. Really good. Have not used the CD much as I have this. I recommend it if yo are using the calculator and if it is new to you. If you have experience with TI cals then maybe you do not need this. But the CD is a tough go to use quickly and this book might be everyones answer. Sure is mine.

All too often students and professionals get tekkie-toys that they just don't have time to learn throughly. This book manages to do just that for the TI-83+; quickly, without expending midnight oil or pulling out any hair.

"For Dummies" is a misleading title for this series. Call it "For Smart People who Value their Time and expect results".

I will shelve the instruction manual that came with the calculator. This is the manual to use. Easy to understand.

I really struggled with all the functions on the TI-83. I was spending more time trying to figure out how to use the calculator than I was how to work the problems from class. This book made it simple and easy.

I bought this book for my husband who is going for his Bachelors degree and found out that our other college course didn't transfer. This has helped him so much and he is holding a 93% in the class. Will everyone get this good a grade? Maybe not but it helped my husband. Easy explanations and instructions to follow. Would definitely recommend.

This book saved me a lot of grief in my college math classes. I tried getting through the instruction manual on-line but gave that up. It is well organized and will save you a lot of time.

I loved the finance section of this book but everything else was simply a rehash of what is in the existing TI-83+ book which can be downloaded for free from the TI website. As a matter of fact the free download from the TI website is far superior. This book comes across more as a recipe book which explains how to push buttons but does not give much examples as to why you might want to do this. I find it significantly different from the TI-89 book for dummies which I would easily give 5 stars to. I am even suspicious that the Finance chapter was written by a different person than the rest of the book, or possibly that the author's area of expertise was Finance and he wasn't that familiar with anything else.

I don't have anything bad to say about this guide. It helped me greatly! Get it if you want to learn the T1-83 plus graphing calculator.

I found this book to be absolutely necessary when using the TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator. There are areas of this book that are very technical, but as I got further along in College Algebra, I was able to figure most of it out. I mainly used the book as a resource to look up how to do things or answer questions. The error section provided by the author was a tremendous help when troubleshooting syntax errors and configuring the window setup.

The product was delivered quickly, and the book was in perfect condition, but I feel that I must be more of a dummy than the author had in mind, as I have been unable to figure out some of the instructions for a couple of the simpler functions. It is not to be handed to me on a platter, evidently. I shall not be daunted. No daunts here. I shall go on, undaunted. Overall, I'm happy with the purchase. Much better than the TI manual.