What math are we talking about. From my experience, there is no difference in the app if no app can solve your math anyways. So I just use notability same with everything

desmos, notes app (if you have a m1 or better processor), wolfram alpha (get the paid classic version to get step-by-step solutions but avoid monthly subscriptions). maybe matlab and excel depending on what math you're doing i.e. data analysis or actuarial science

We use DESMOS in class all the time. Have used Geogebra for 3D graphing in multi variate calculus. Think DESMOS may have a 3D version out soon or even now. DESMOS has a free app for devices as well and lets you save your work for later.

GeoGebra or Desmos

Geogebra, desmos, maple, learn some python maybe? Or even Matlab. I don't know what you have access to or what level of ability you want it to have.

Personally if I had to pick between geogebra and desmos I'd personally go geogebra as I think it does more and is more user friendly.

desmos
any day of the week

DESMOS

Desmos is better IMO and what I use.

I also take screenshots of the graphs often so I can look at them later. Also when I want to graph something more complicated than a function and I'm not immediately sure how to do that, such as a cone, you can Google it and often find that someone has already done it and put it online.

A lot of teachers won't accept an app, they will only accept a "real" graphing calculator anyway.

I attached a screenshot of it in the post & typed the name of the app into it LOL (Calculate84)

It works on my iPhone & iPad, but I don’t know if it’s on android as well. Also like, it’s literally THE EXACT SAME as the ti-84 plus CE & FREE, I can’t believe I paid $150 for mine :|

Desmos is what I use to graph an manipulate functions, to be real I only use a calc like this for arithmetic I don’t want to Fuck up doing in my head/on paper but derivatives I use a list of short cuts more 😂but this is a great calculator app can confirm.

Edit: also Desmos has a widely accepted test mode!! For exams

It’s nice, but I have some problem when using some statistics features, such as 1-Var stats. Not exactly relavent to calculus but hopefully it will help anyone who need this info

double also, the zoom feature on the graphs & the ability to make that bigger than just the little rectangle? ugh amazing

Plus42 on Android, but I don't use its graphical capacities much, which are… there. It's not very ergonomic for graphics, and screen space is small. I just use it to crunch numbers, and in that regard it's excellent.

I like desmos

I would like to have and app that combined Plus 42 or HP Prime physical interface with CalcEs like additional screens for additional information and graphics.

Plus42 is really nice.

iPhone: Plus42

iPad: NCalc Fx

All 3 of the options you listed are good. The Nspire would be really good at solving equations, idk about factoring. The Prime is really really fast, as does most everything the Nspire does. All 3 are very easy to program.

In college, for exams, you may be required to use a 'dumb' scientific calculator. Homework you can use whatever you want, and people tent to lean towards WolframAlpha or Symbolab these days.

I have had both the TI calculators you listed, and as a hard-STEM major, the N-Spire CX CAS II has been a blessing. I cannot recommend it enough.

Depending on what you want to do in College, the HP Prime will definitely grow with you

There's a treasure trove of programs for the Prime at hpmuseum.org and at hpcalc.org. Also the Prime is the best Grapher I've seen, if graphing is important to you. It's very fast and the touch screen is well implemented.

If you're worried about having to learn RPN, it's not an issue with the Prime. It works better in algebraic mode.

Wolfram Alpha is great. It’s online, but it does everything you need.

Pcalc.

Pcalc is well known for this. You may also want to look into Soulver, which supports variables and many different types of calculations to support elaborate use cases.

Thank you. It’s a fun app. Jebus those top scores. That’s dedication 😆👍😊

Good game, just wish the placement of the answers weren’t so far down on the screen

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Desmos for easy and normal functions — because it’s just the quickest way of doing stuff. Geogebra when I want to do some slightly more advanced stuff or put together more complex visualisations but where ease of use/interactability still important.

Otherwise, mathematica or python+matplotlib — you can basically do almost anything between the two.

Google around for examples of exactly what you want to do with Desmos. Any examples you find will open up right in a browser window. Then you can see how people come up with nifty solutions to graphing problems.

Often if you open an example there will be explanatory notes in the desmos graph like this basic example https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ouobakqewe

Click the three bars at the top left, and you'll see a bunch of example graphs that show a bunch of basic things! I think the lower ones are generally more advanced than the higher ones.

I dont know of any sources specifically for teaching it, but it's really accessible, so I think you'll do fine just looking at the examples. (Unless you want to do insanely crazy things like some of the people at r/desmos)

TikZ, because I hate myself.

^^^matlab

Matplotlib, because I use python anyhow, and I find that for plotting having a real programming language in the background helps enormously since often I want to do something non-trivial with the data as soon as I have seen the plot.

I use Desmos all the time. It's got some really convenient things like sliders and draggable points that change the graphs.