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I have a small favor to ask all of you who follow Tech Powered Math. I’ve added a new poll question to the sidebar (you’ll find it in the lower left corner), and it’d really help me out of you could take a couple of seconds to participate. I’m trying to get a handle on what eBook format most of you use. When my first book went to #2 on the Kindle best seller list for education books at one point last week, I realized there’s more interest in electronic resources for graphing calculators than I had been aware of.

TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Released

By Tech Powered Dad in calculators

June 7, 2012

In the first major update to the TI-Nspire operating system since OS 3.0 came out a year ago in the Spring of 2011, Texas Instruments today released TI-Nspire OS 3.2. While less significant a leap forward than 3.0, which brought the ability to load pictures, 3D graphing, and cleared the way for the TI-Nspire CX release, 3.2 nonetheless offers important new features. The biggest change for most users will be in graphing.

Texas Instruments Announces TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Release Timeline

By Tech Powered Dad in news

May 1, 2012

It’s only a minor deviation from the plan that Texas Instruments reps originally talked about at the T3 Conference back in March, but all of you TI-Nspire fans will have to wait just a bit longer for the release of TI-Nspire OS 3.2. The original discussions had indicated a mid to late May release of the operating system that will bring conic sections and “x=” graphing to the Nspire. On Saturday, TI released an email announcing that the official timeline is now a June release.

Hackers Bring Tetris and 3D Graphing to Casio Prizm

By Tech Powered Dad in Featured

April 18, 2012

I must admit that I’m not that good at keep up to date with the active community of graphing calculators hackers. I was interested to learn via an email update from the Cemetech staff that they have made significant inroads in their efforts to pimp out the Casio Prizm over the last couple of months. As Texas Instruments has continues to make the TI-Nspire line their premiere line of calculators, the hacker community has started to gain interest in the Casio Prizm, calculator that seems to generally be seen as more friendly to programming efforts.

Infographic: America’s Education Report Card

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

April 5, 2012

This week’s Infographic Thursday brings us a look at how America is doing in education when compared with the rest of the world. by ejfox.

Interview With eNotebook Creator Kevin Giffhorn

By Tech Powered Dad in apps

April 3, 2012

Running a math technology blog, I get requests for app reviews on a regular basis. One of the more innovative educational apps I’ve seen in recent months has been eNotebook, from WeLearn Educational Software. eNotebook is an app that turns your iPad into an electronic notebook, allowing you to use an iPad to write on PowerPoint, Word, and PDF files. I was very interested to learn that eNotebook was created by a current high school math teacher, who is also the founder of WeLearn, Kevin Giffhorn.

Infographic: NCTM vs. NSTA

By Tech Powered Dad in fun stuff

March 29, 2012

In honor of the start of the NSTA convention in Indianapolis, I created an infographic of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Twitter account vs. the National Science Teachers Association Twitter account. Of course, math and science are peas from the same pod, not competitors, so it’s all in good fun. It’s actually interesting to see that there are a lot of similarities between the two accounts. If you’d like to add this infographic to your website or blog, please use the embed code at the bottom of this post.

Lua Scripting Demo on TI-Nspire 3.2

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March 12, 2012

As I mentioned in my previous post, TI-Nspire 3.2 has Lua scripting support. While I’m no programming guru (pretty much limited to GW-Basic and Fortran), I know there are a lot of people who will be excited about the opportunity to program with Lua for the Nspire. There are also a lot of people like myself who will be interested in using what others develop. Video demo follows. The first 10 seconds or so are pretty shaky (sorry), but if you hang in there, it gets better fast.

Vernier LabQuest 2 Sneak Peak

By Tech Powered Dad in news

March 6, 2012

While the T3 conference was all about the latest Texas Instruments tools and techniques, there was an exhibition floor with representatives and gadgets from other companies as well. One of the most noteworthy was Vernier, a company that both makes products that work in tandem with TI technologies as well as their own standalone technologies. Vernier focuses on data collection sensors, everything from simple digital thermometers to near frictionless sleds, that are designed to let students collect and analyze real data.

TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Demo

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March 5, 2012

I’m going to have stories continuing to trickle out of my time at T3 in Chicago for a while. Along with the announcement of Mayim Bialik as their new spokesperson, the folks at TI had another big announcement, TI-Nspire OS 3.2 is on the way. There are three very noteworthy improvements that come with OS 3.2. First, graphing with conic sections is finally available. This is one of the few remaining things that was fairly simple to do on the TI-84 (via an app) but impossible on the TI-Nspire.

New Poll Question: Favorite eBook Format

TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Released

Texas Instruments Announces TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Release Timeline

Hackers Bring Tetris and 3D Graphing to Casio Prizm

Infographic: America’s Education Report Card

Interview With eNotebook Creator Kevin Giffhorn

Infographic: NCTM vs. NSTA

Lua Scripting Demo on TI-Nspire 3.2

Vernier LabQuest 2 Sneak Peak

TI-Nspire OS 3.2 Demo

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