Texas Instruments TI-36X Pro Engineering/Scientific Calculator | 9.7 Inch | Black.

Best calc to use for FE if you are accustomed to TI brand calcs. I like it a lot, great value.

This Calculator is good over all, highly recommend for students that are taking pre-cal or cal. This product came in un-use brand new, the package and everything was sealed but I notices that the buttons are a little shifted. The buttons are a little tipped over and some are shifted downwards

My daily driver was the ole reliable ti-84, but it was annoying doing calculations that involved complex numbers. As I had to constantly convert between radian and degree mode which was just not convenient when having to do tons of homework problems. Decided to buy the ti-36pro and it’s been incredible. My favorite part is the speed for which you can convert from polar to rectangular. It made problems involving the phasor domain a breeze to get through. So if you’re an EE student and aren’t ready to shell out almost 200 on a ti-inspire I would HIGHLY recommend this calculator.

Muy funcional

Satisfactory

Great calculator. Easy complex arithmetic. Calculate rectangular or polar coordinates directly. All my electronics students have one

Im a university junior computer science major. My workload is extremely math heavy. Almost four years ago when I started at community college, I knew nothing about advanced math, or calculators. I bought the cheapest calculator at Walmart which indicated that it was allowed for use on college tests, (SAT, ACT, etc.). I believe it was the Casio fx-115ES PLUS. Not a bad calculator, and comparable to this one, but it has many shortcomings IMO. A year or so later, by the time I started taking calculus classes I bought a graphing calculator, (ti-nSpire). I really enjoy that calculator too. I was turned onto the ti-36x pro by a professor I had a couple years ago. Since it basically fills the same niche has the Casio that I already have I never saw any reason to buy it. Besides, for the past few years Ive mostly relied on the nSpire. This Fall I began taking physics classes for some of my major requirements. The teacher doesnt allow the nSpire, or any CAS calculator on the tests. I like to use the same calculator in the coursework/homework that Ill be using on future tests, just to have that muscle memory when its showtime. I pulled out the old Casio and dusted it off, and after the past few years with the ti-nSpire, lets just say I was less than inspired by using the Casio. The biggest thing that I dislike about the Casio is that you can only see the present problem that youre working on at any given time. I got used to being able to scroll up and see previous problems/solutions, and being able to navigate the cursor up to a previous solution, press enter, and have it inserted into another equation, or whatever that Im currently working on. Hopefully that makes sense. In any event, the ti-36x pro does this too! You can see the three most recent problems that you last worked on, in addition to the one youre currently working on. And you can scroll back to any spot in the history, up until the point where you last cleared it. You can also easily insert solutions, or portions of previous problems into the current. For me this is crucial during test taking. It is the best type of calculator work flow for myself, and although something similar to this can be achieved with the Casio, I was never able to get it to work with out feeling cumbersome. There are several other things that I like about this calculator over the Casio as well. In some aspects I like it even more than the ti-nSpire. Mostly just because using this calculator is so smooth and simple. If I dont need to take limits, anti-derivatives, or indefinite integrals, or plot actual graphs, I would choose the ti 36x pro over the nSpire, just because it is so simple and elegant to use. Ive not used a ti-84 much. Never owned one, but have played with them a few times. As far as I can tell, this thing is basically a ti-84, without graphing capabilities. In short, if you need a calculator for algebra, engineering, physics, trig, some calculus, etc., but you cant use a full fledged CAS, or even a regular graphing calculator, this is the best option.

If youre STEM and you dont have this calculator you are making a grave mistake. You cant use graphing calculators on many of the higher-level tests, and this calculator is very powerful with lots of built in constants and great floating point accuracy. It will also automatically simplify fractions for you and give results in exact fractional terms (especially trig functions) that most calculators would output as an approximated value (i.e. cos(30) = sqrt(3)/2 whereas a TI-84 or TI-30 would give 0.866). You can hit the key above enter to get the approximated value from that. Remember, you cant just use the table function to get this because your calculator will output an imprecise result. - Not with the TI-36X pro. Table function for days. Make sure you memorize Avagadros number, you need that to calculate molar mass and molecules. - 2nd > constant > 4 > enter = 3.02214179e23 Dont get in the habit of storing values to memory with your TI-84, you wont be able to do that on the test - 8 constants you can store to calculate values to greater accuracy than if you spent the time to type in 10-digit values. I often get a more precise result than some of my professors who use lower grade calculators (verified by Wolfram Alpha/etc; obviously half the time I get a different result Im just wrong =] ) And Im just a sophomore scratching the surface of this things capabilities, a couple of my professors and a friend of mine with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics say it never stops being useful late into your career.

Ordered this for my other half. Said that her previous one lasted over 4 years. No problem and seems well made.

I’m in pre cal and my professor won’t allow us to use graphing calculators, so I’ve looked around at several different scientific calculators and While there are a ton of features the pro should have, overall it does include everything you need plus a few enhancement tools, like the solver, and it’s ability to provide exact and irrational answers. Although the pro is hands down the best scientific calculator on the market, it could definitely use some upgrades to make life easier. 1. I wish it allowed you to create a table for more than one function at a time for comparison purposes. 2. Formula memory!! Why does this only have one formula memory slot? (FYI there is a scientific calculator from Sharp that allows you to store up to 4 formulas but it doesn’t have a table mode.) 3. QR codes. I came across the Casio class wiz scientific calculator and it lets you generate a qr code from a table you created and view its graph from your phone. It also has a spreadsheet function. Only didn’t buy because it erases your work once it turns off. I love that you can turn off the TI 36xpro and when you turn it back on again, all your calculations are still there. 4) >,=, and < signs. When I’m making tables, sometimes I only want to see results within a specific range so being able to tell the calculator you’re only looking for values within a desired range would be significantly helpful!