Credit for ALEKS Corp (McGraw Hill) Online courses in College Algebra & Statistics

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Hi gang,
I was just wondering if before I sign up to start Aleks Stats program if I need to go out and get me one of them there fancy TI BA-II caculators? I am assuming that you need some type of calculator capable of doing statistics-type problems right? Is there a particular one that is recommended?

Thanks for the help,
Kelly

Hi Kelly,

Yes and no. ALEKS is great in that it provides a software calculator for any calculation you need to make which requires one. It can do everything from multiplying and solving matrices to evaluating F-distributions.

You can run Excel or a similar spreadsheet program for working with data as required to supplement the calculator.

However, it is nice to have a decent scientific (not necessarily graphical) calculator to punch away on in the same way pen and paper is often preferable to typing maths stuff. I used and continue to use the Casio fx-83 ES for most purposes. There are enough online graphing calculators not to need a graphing calculator in my hand and the online apps are often easier to get to grips with.

Good luck.