Teaching with Calculators - Winter 2006

In this issue

Wright knows first hand about calculators in the classroom. He’s also a teacher and textbook author who has been teaching business classes for 15 years at Lipscomb University in Nashville. His textbook, Quantitative Analysis for Business: The Time Value of Money and Basic Business Statistics Using a Business Calculator, 3rd Edition, is available from Amazon.com and other booksellers.

Wright is a graduate of Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management with an MBA in finance. He has worked for Accenture designing financial systems, for a hospital management company designing a flexible budgeting system, for an actuary designing pension termination and defined contribution systems for a large insurance company as an internal consultant to senior management. Wright also is an instructor for HP Calculator’s Virtual Classrooms.

Join in the Celebration With the Amazing HP 12c Contest

HP is celebrating 25 years with the “Tales of the Amazing HP 12c Calculator Contest,” a nationwide competition that asks entrants to submit their most creative and incredible real-life HP 12c Calculator success stories. If you’ve got a good story to tell using the HP 12c as a student, instructor or professional, enter the contest to win an HP 37” LCD flat-panel TV or other prizes. The contest runs from February 10 through May 1, 2006 and is open to U.S. residents who currently own or have owned the HP 12c calculator.  Details are at: www.hp.com/go/12cAnniversary.

Preferred by many engineers, scientists and students for its efficiency, RPN – which stands for Reverse Polish Notation – is HP’s exclusive time-saving, consistent method for entering and solving mathematical problems.

The HP 33s calculator has a fast processor, a two-line display, and programmability. Because it does not include text or communication capabilities it is has been approved by many testing bodies for professional examinations. Students have found that the 33s has the power and capabilities to take them through science, engineering and surveying courses and on through the qualification exams into their professions.

A simple program is just a set of keystrokes stored so that they can be carried out with one key. The HP 33S provides many commands to let programs do more than simply carry out a formula. For example, you can have the 33s stop and ask for input or show an intermediate result. This featured tutorial concentrates on simple programming; it also shows a few of the more advanced programming commands such as the ability to nest, or create subroutines, inside a main program.

See HP Calculators at These Events

HP Calculators will be on the road at these important events. You will have a chance to speak to product specialists and test out the features of our quality calculators.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

NCTM 2006 Annual Meeting and Exposition
April 26-29, 2006
St. Louis
America’s Center, Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis, Adam's Mark Hotel
HP Booth: 2735

The Real Estate Educators Association

 The 27th REEA Annual Conference
June 11-14, 2006
Las Vegas
HP Booth: 04

The 113th Annual ASEE Conference & Exposition

 June 18-21, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
Hyatt Regency Chicago-Riverside Center
HP Booth: To be announced

National Educational Computing Conference

The 27th Annual NECC 2006
July 5-7, 2006
San Diego, Calif.
San Diego Convention Center
HP Booth: 514

Share Your Ideas for Success

If you have an interesting story to tell about how you use calculators to teach, Teaching With Calculators would love to hear about it. You can submit a story or idea by contacting us at: CalcInfo@hp.com. Don’t have time to write it up? We would be glad to interview you. If your story is selected, we will print it in an upcoming issue of Teaching With Calculators.