Scientific or graphing calculator? What do students need to purchase? As they grow older and get older, the list of school supplies might be shorter, however, it's not necessarily less expensive. One item that can cause sticker shock to parents of high and middle school students is an specialized calculator. Some schools prefer that students use their own scientific calculator. In the highest level math courses, such as Advanced Calculus an graphing calculator may be required. What's the difference? A scientific calculator is able to perform functions that go beyond subtraction, addition division and multiplication. Scientific calculators typically have special buttons for parentheses, trigonometric calculations, exponents inverted numbers and pi in addition to many other things. A graphing calculator does even more. It'll have a larger screen, allowing you to type in a function, then display a graph of it. The Best buy's Geek Squad agent Derek Meist...
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