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NB mulplicaon
and division.
What do you expect the result
of this calculaon to be?
At the heart of TI-Nspire is the Calculator applicaon, the workspace for numeric and algebra operaons.
This tutorial introduces some of the key features of the applicaon, starng with a new blank document.
This document will be saved, used again and added to in subsequent tutorials
First create a new blank document by pressing c and
choosing opon from the Home Screen.
To open a page which uses the calculator applicaon:
press 1 or · or x.
Try keying in and entering expressions using the four basic arithmec operaons, square roots, negaves etc.
Look carefully at how the expressions as well as the results appear on the screen, in order to understand the
convenons the handheld uses with its default sengs.
Noce that in many cases the layout of the expression changes when · is pressed—in parcular watch how
the mulplicaon and division operaons are handled.
Try typing a lengthy expression and, before pressing ·, see the eect of using . and then /..