When I first bought my TI-89 calculator, this book didn't exist - shucks. I had to resort to using the manual provided by Texas Instruments to ferret out the features of the calculator. But, when I discovered this book, I bought a copy, and I'm glad I did. If you plan on using a TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, TI-92 Plus, or the Voyager 200 calculator, according to the author, this book is for you. I tend to agree.
In this book, Edwards covers the basics of using the calculator in the first two chapters. After this introduction to the calculator, he covers doing algebra and trigonometry problems, and then segues into graphing and analyzing functions in Part III where he devotes three chapters to these topics. The next part (four chapters) deals with sequences, parametric equations, and polar equations. Part V covers differential and integral calculus, a chapter on vector calculus, a chapter on graphing surfaces and contour maps, and a chapter on differential equations. In the remaining parts, he covers matrices, probability, and statistics. He finishes with using the calculator to communicate with the PC or other calculators. In the appendix, you get an introduction into creating custom menus.
Each chapter of the book is written so that if you know the basics covered in the first chapters, you can just jump to the chapter you need and learn what you need to know for the task at hand. I think Edwards has done a great job of explaining the use of this calculator. He has plenty of screen shots from the calculator to illustrate the explanations in the text. I had no problem following along. Note that this is not designed to be a comprehensive book covering all functions of the calculator. Don't throw out you Texas Instruments manual. It touches base on the most important and probably the most likely to be used functions.
The only thing I might have liked to have seen is, perhaps, some practice problems at the end of each chapter with screen shots of the solutions, but even so the book explains things pretty well. If you want a "cheat sheet" of calculator shortcuts and a summary of features that you can print out, do a search on Google for "TI-89 graphing calculator for dummies cheat sheet." This provides a handy reference you can stuff in a book.
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