Back in the day it was a tool booth for aiding the education of advanced math, while I have to assume exposing kids (high school) to some technology. The TIs were the standard bearer because they were known to academia, and met their requirements for making cheating difficult enough. I forget the models that weren’t allowed because they had some feature(s) that enabled cheating more, but, lemme just say, even the TI-83 or 82 enabled plenty of shenanigans
Back in the day it was a tool booth for aiding the education of advanced math, while I have to assume exposing kids (high school) to some technology. The TIs were the standard bearer because they were known to academia, and met their requirements for making cheating difficult enough. I forget the models that weren’t allowed because they had some feature(s) that enabled cheating more, but, lemme just say, even the TI-83 or 82 enabled plenty of shenanigans