First Steps with
About this document
This document includes seven introductory tutorials to take new users through many key features of
About the tutorials
The tutorials are designed to be worked through in order, with later ones building on skills covered earlier. The first time you meet a new technique, there are very detailed instructions about which keys to press – but, as you would expect, the amount of detail is reduced when the technique is used subsequently.
In an Appendix you will find an example that links together several of the applications introduced separately in the tutorials. As well as enabling you to revisit many of the techniques you met earlier, it provides an example of the use of “multiple representations” of mathematical concepts.
References
In the tutorials you will find occasional references to documents that are supplied in electronic form with your
They are also available from http://education.ti.com/guides, choose
They are:
•Getting Started with the
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Key features of TI-Nspire™
•Multiple representations, dynamically linked, encouraging different approaches to solving problems and expressing solutions.
•A complete set of mathematical tools for algebra, geometry, number, calculus, statistics, matrices and vectors, finance and
•Working documents which can be saved, recalled, edited, transferred between handheld and computer and distributed electronically.
•A tool for key concept and key skill development across all the secondary school years.
First edition, November 2007.
Second edition, February 2008.
Third edition, August 2008.
Fourth edition, June 2010.
Fifth edition, September 2011.
Sixth edition, January 2012.
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