HP Prime FW for 2023?

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(01-14-2023 08:02 AM)parisse Wrote:  This shows that the educational market is very conservative

Not so much "conservative"... just short on money and time. I was the math department chair in a big city school in the US for many years. We owned hundreds of TI-84's as class sets, teachers knew how to use them, and kids often arrived with them from elementary school. What would Primes or NSpires really add for most classes? And what financial and training tradeoffs would be required to change? Did we really want to tell our not-wealthy families that they needed a different $100+ unit than they had just bought? Honestly, an 84CE is a pretty damn good calculator for most HS students. About all I'd like to see it do is handle exact radical values on the home screen like the Casios do. A touchscreen like the Prime has would be great for graphing but really doesn't matter most of the time. The cost/benefit tradeoff in changing just isn't there for anybody involved. We had and have a million other more impactful issues on the job than our choice of technology. So the 84's live on... because they were there first and because they're fundamentally good enough. (That being said, the fact that TI can still charge ~$125 for one is a triumph/failure of capitalism.)

I do personally encourage my precalc/calculus students to pick up a Prime if that's feasible, and several of them have. Those students have been very happy with them.