First Steps with TI-Nspire™
Tutorial 1: TI-Nspire documents
The Home Screen
When you switched on a calculator you expected to see what was called the Home Screen and you’d be able to start carrying out calculations right away. But the TI-Nspire handheld is different in this respect too. Press c, the home button, a black key at the top right of the keypad. You should see a screen similar to this. Navigate to the various icons on the Home Screen using the large square Touchpad on the keypad. This behaves as both a touchpad (like using a laptop), and as a navigational device as you can press on the up, down, left and right arrows to move the selector around. To click or select something you press the x square symbol in the middle of the touchpad, or press the enter key. However don’t select anything else yet!
Consider whether the TI-Nspire’s home screen is more reminiscent of a calculator or of a computer. When a computer wakes up you first see the desktop and in many ways this TI-Nspire Home Screen is similar. With a computer you have to choose an application to use -- a word-processor, spreadsheet or whatever. You then must open a document within which you will be able to write text, do calculations, manipulate images etc.
Computer:Desktop Choose Application Open Document
In many ways working with TI-Nspire is similar. You always have to work within a document and you can use different applications to calculate, draw graphs, , work with geometry, manipulate lists and spreadsheets, work with data and statistics, add notes and perform data logging.
The TI-Nspire applications are:
• Calculator
• Graphs
• Geometry
• Lists & Spreadsheet
• Data & Statistics
• Notes
• Vernier DataQuest™
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