Gadgets

Amazon’s Kindle for Math

If you are planning to buy an Amazon Kindle for your math studies, you should head on over to Amazon’s website to buy your Kindle. With so many options to help learn math in a technology age, you may have overlooked using the Amazon Kindle for math. Opinions I’ve read have been mixed on using a Kindle for math, but I think that’s easily explained. Most people have looked at using traditional textbooks ported to the Kindle.

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Texas Instruments TI-Navigator Review

Click here Click here to buy the TI-Navigator on Amazon. I got a chance to check out TI-Navigator up close and personal over the weekend as part of the TI User group I’m a part of. Texas Instruments has put together an impressive product here, with far greater capabilities than I was expecting. Essentially, TI-Navigator gives a teacher the ability to connect their computer to an entire classroom of TI-84 plus or TI-Nspire calculators.

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Canon announces X Mark I calculator mouse

UPDATE (7/27/11): After hearing nothing for a year, Canon has announced they will release the Cannon X Mark 1 Calculator Mouse in August 2011. Buy the X Mark on Canon.com.   The gadget world was all a twitter over the weekend as Canon announced the creation of the X Mark I, a combination mouse-calculator-numeric keypad. This bluetooth mouse features large, PC sized buttons. With all the gadget gurus falling all over themselves to report the excitement of this new device (Engadget called it “magical”), apparently no one is asking, “Haven’t we been here before?

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