Exploring Mathematics: Solving Problems with the TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator is a useful manual which provides students in precalculus, college algebra, and trigonometry courses with instruction on how to use a graphing calculator to solve a number of problems in their textbook. Students are urged to first make a conjecture about the solution based on their previous experience and knowledge from other math courses, and then test that conjecture with the aid of a graphing calculator. All references in the manual refer to the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator; however many of the keystrokes described also apply to the TI-83 Plus.
Topics covered include:
- The Viewing Rectangle
- Graphing Equations
- Locating Intercepts & Checking for Symmetry
- Solving Equations
- Square Screens
- Graphing Inequalities
- Solving Systems of Equations
- Graphing Polar Equations
- Graphing Parametric Equations
- The Least -- Squares Line