“It’s hard to believe, but my students were among the first in the world to do it,” gushes middle school math teacher Cathy Yenca. “And after two test runs prior to testing day, there really weren’t ...

Math students have a love-hate relationship with the funky, expensive TI-84 graphing calculators, but thanks to a new deal, they'll soon get a free option. Starting this spring, pupils in 14 US states ...

The Smarter Balanced test group announced today that it has partnered with Desmos, a company that created a free online graphing calculator that is giving Texas Instruments a run for its money. As of ...

Sometimes you just need to make a graph. If your TI-84 isn’t handy, Desmos Graphing Calculator is a good backup to have. The app accepts both functions and tables of x and y values as inputs and ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article included inaccurate phrasing regarding the findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Data extracted from NAEP show the percentage of ...

(CNNMoney) A glimmer of hope has arrived for parents tired of having to buy their high school students an overpriced calculator. Smarter Balanced, which administers school proficiency tests in 15 ...

If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet. By maintaining a monopoly on the graphing calculator market, Texas ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For years, the $100 graphing calculator has been a mainstay of high schools and SAT ...

Young people these days live most of their lives online, so why shouldn’t they be plotting graphs and performing advanced calculations there as well? For the first time this spring, students taking ...

The sheer idea that graphing calculators are still a thing in 2017 is a bit absurd when you consider that nearly every student is toting around a far more powerful device in their pockets in the form ...