The new TI-Nspire™ CX handheld and associated software are designed to generate opportunities for classroom exploration and to promote greater understanding of core concepts in mathematics and science.
TI-Nspire technology has been developed through sound classroom research* which shows that "linked multiple representations are crucial in development of conceptual understanding." TI-Nspire "provides simultaneous, dynamically linked representations of graphs, equations, data and verbal explanations, such that a change in one representation is immediately reflected in the others."
In addition to the flexibility offered by TI-Nspire's menu-driven interface and built-in document structure, the CX handheld is enhanced by a backlit colour screen onto which images can be imported, helping bring concepts to life. The handheld is fitted with a rechargeable battery which can be recharged with a USB cable connected to your computer, the TI-Nspire Docking Station (for the classroom) or a wall charger. Battery life is expected to last up to two weeks under normal use.
- Different representations can share dynamically-linked data using the TI-Nspire applications: Calculator, Graphs (2D and 3D), Geometry, Lists & Spreadsheet, Data & Statistics, Notes, Questions and new Vernier DataQuest™. Users can also split the screen, enabling up to four applications to be viewed simultaneously.
- Users can experience the same interface on the TI-Nspire CX handheld and in the TI-Nspire Software, enabling integration with existing classroom ICT infrastructure and projection systems to offer whole class teaching and personalised learning opportunities. TI-Nspire works with all major interactive whiteboard technologies.
- Import colour/black and white images from online sources or from your own digital archive and overlay graphs and other elements.
- TI-Nspire's 3D Graphing View enables you to explore surfaces by rotating them, investigate intersections of a surface with a plane and create animations using sliders to understand how changing different parameters affect 3D objects.
- Create, edit, save and share work in documents within a familiar folder structure.
- The new Vernier DataQuest™ application adds functionality for data logging allowing for the collection and analysis of real-life data in all STEM subjects.
- The USB port supports sharing – with another handheld and a computer.
- Handhelds can be integrated with a TI-Nspire CX Navigator™ system, to give an independent wireless network within the classroom.
Technical specifications:
Memory - free memory: 99.7MB, total memory: 115.2MB
Screen - high resolution, 240 x 320 pixels high contrast display
*Source: (SRI 2006) SRI, Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
