While midterms may be over for most students, final exams for the quarter or semester are coming up. Inevitably, you’ll be sitting in your room or the library trying to study. Here are 5 tools and website that’ll help you make the grade and ace your next test.
Whether you spend a lot of time on the plane or bus, you’re sure to get bored. Sure, you could bring along a couple of hard cover books, like the 630-page-epic [amazon_link id=”1451648537″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Steve Jobs[/amazon_link], but it’s a couple of pounds that you’re carrying unnecessarily. With some pretty amazing E-Reader offerings from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, there’s almost no reason to carry around another physical book.
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Recently there have been several rumors about a new calculator from Texas Instruments launching next Spring. Interestingly, however, it’s not a TI NSpire– it’s a new model of TI-84 Plus: the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.
James Bond Skyfall is being released in a matter of days to glowing reviews. Here’s a couple of ways you can be the James Bond of your school with 8 unique gadgets.
It’s nearing the end of the quarter for most college students and high schoolers are coming up on holiday break. That means almost every student, both in high school and college, is stressing over a massive midterm or final exam. Here are a few calculus studying tips that I didn’t necessarily follow myself in high school.
Over the years, Amazon has improved their Kindle lineup significantly. Most recently, they’ve added a new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite device– two new gadgets that are sure to make owners of previous Kindles drool.
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The TI NSpire was a revolutionary calculator. Just recently TI took it to the next level with a new version of the TI NSpire operating system, an [amazon_link id=”B003EK7O1G” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]upgraded calculator[/amazon_link], and a new Touchpad for the TI NSpire. The new and improved Touchpad includes all of the buttons on the old TI NSpire “Clickpad” in addition to a new mouse-like pad that makes scrolling much easier.
Paperback books are soooooo 1990’s! If you haven’t had the chance to read about it yet, you’ve got to see the new [amazon_link id=”B000FI73MA” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Amazon Kindle[/amazon_link] electronic book reader. This ultra small and thin device looks like an oversized PDA, but packs amazing new technology, which will likely render overstuffed, 30 pound book bags entirely obsolete one day. Can you imagine replacing all your text books with this 10 ounce machine?
To transfer programs to the TI-84 Plus or TI-89 Titanium, you will need a software program by Texas Instruments and a cable. The [amazon_link id=”B0006I0ADI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]TI-89 Titanium[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”B0001EMM0G” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]TI-84 Plus[/amazon_link] have similar methods for transferring programs, mainly due to the USB port on the newer calculators versus the older Graphlink port.
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