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What would you all consider a program to be helpful for someone who hasn't memorized formulas and such?

I think a conics and SA/Area of various solids could prove very helpful...

Perhaps a triangle solving program as well.

If you are taking the IIC, are you going to throw an programs on your calcs to save time with stuff you dunno?

Im just trying to get a feeling for what other people haven't gotten a good grasp on, and what they are doing about it...

By Legendofmax (Legendofmax) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 08:57 pm: Edit

These are the programs I created for myself:

Angle between two intersecting lines
Arithmetic Number Calculator
3D Coordinate Program
Distance Between Two Points
Midpoint Formula
Distance between a point and a line
Quadratic formula
Slope formula
Area of any triangle given two sides and an angle

By Kgr (Kgr) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 09:29 pm: Edit

hehe, I d/led a bunch of 'em for my ti-89

among those that'll really help you:

triangle (just plug in sides and angle, it'll tell ya all the other sides, angles, area, medians and whatnot)- yeah, screw the law of cosines

notes- in text editor, to remind what functions are odd, and what are even (always forget), trig formulas, etc.

trig simplify- just plug the expressions in and simplify symbolically !
finverse - inverse of a function
picture of unit circle
vangle- angle between two vectors
series and sequence problems...just fill in the blanks of the formulas

man, im ready to retake my math iic this sat
last time w/out a graph calc I got 760... now aimin for 800

By Tigeruppercut (Tigeruppercut) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 09:36 pm: Edit

cuold you guys hook me up with those programs?
or show me how to make them?

By Kgr (Kgr) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 09:51 pm: Edit

well, this is all for ti-89, but sure:

http://www.ti-89.org/links.html

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/89/basic/math/

there was one more site, don't have a link, but if you enter ti-89 group in google it will come up...

By Mugsy0624 (Mugsy0624) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 09:53 pm: Edit

yeah, i could really use these programs too

By Piman3141 (Piman3141) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 10:00 pm: Edit

my god man, just memorize the formulas, it's a lot better in the long run.

By Number9 (Number9) on Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Damn. I need a really high score. I have the 89, now these progs. I just need to take a practice test now...

By Tigeruppercut (Tigeruppercut) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 02:21 am: Edit

GOD BLESS YOU KGR.


math2c should be a test that everyone gets 800. i wonder why the curve is soo low hehe.

By Kgr (Kgr) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 06:33 pm: Edit

>>>my god man, just memorize the formulas, it's a lot better in the long run

see, Im good at math, but knowledge isn't the primary thing satII math measures...

By Haithman (Haithman) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 06:35 pm: Edit

holy crap! even a tool who has only the basic knowledge to plug stuff into a calc can score a 750 on the IIC with those programs...crazy

By Number9 (Number9) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 07:53 pm: Edit

I have a feeling speed might screw me, even though I know my way around my 89...

By Kgr (Kgr) on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 09:38 pm: Edit

>>>holy crap! even a tool who has only the basic knowledge to plug stuff into a calc can score a 750 on the IIC with those programs...crazy

I have a feeling that the curve for IIC will go up after my post