Casio: ClassPad 300. (New Products).www.casio.com, Hardware, $249.95 This calculator features a collection of applications, such as 3D Graph, Geometry and eActivity, to support students' self-study. The cross-curricular tool has a 160 x 240-dot LCCD LCCD Linear Coupled-Cluster Method with Double Excitations touch screen with stylus-based operation, and it enables input of fractions, differentials, integrals and lim calculations. It supports drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. , copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. and other pen-based operations. Teachers can use the calculators to create activities for students. Screen shots can be captured, combined into a presentation and played back in a slideshow format. The calculator also includes auto play, manual play and page editing functions. Geometric graphing features include constraint geometry, geometric figure graphing, geometric figure analysis and animation. Three-dimensional graphing features include trace, zoom and rotate. The ClassPad 300 weighs less than 10 ounces and requires four AAA-size alkaline batteries for operation. Also new from Casio is the FX-9750G PLUS calculator ($49.99), which performs fraction and mixed-fraction operations and converts between hexadecimal See hex. (mathematics) hexadecimal - (Or "hex") Base 16. A number representation using the digits 0-9, with their usual meaning, plus the letters A-F (or a-f) to represent hexadecimal digits with values of (decimal) 10 to 15. , binary and sexagesimal sex·a·ges·i·mal adj. Of, relating to, or based on the number 60. [From Latin sex  g . Students can graph conic sections, then determine and display their characteristics. CIRCLE #511 FOR INFORMATION [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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