Doing my part to keep the TI-84 Plus on top

A pair of brand new Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus graphing calculators sit today on my kitchen island, still encased in what I assume will be annoyingly difficult to crack plastic packaging. My children start school on Thursday and the calculators – that specific brand and model – were “recommended” on a list of supplies.

Which meant little to me until reading a story in this morning’s Washington Post headlined: “The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly on classrooms.”

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Network World Paul McNamara