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I bought a “Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Graphing Calculator” for my son, who is 10th grader and taking Pre-calculus now. It is a wonderful product from Texas Instruments for the students in high School or College students, it is recommended by a lot of math teachers for students to take PSAT/SAT. I personally was amazed by this product, which is very easy to read, and it is really fast with so much powerful functions, besides it has a powerful programming environment, and a well-organized keyboard, thanks to the modern technology for providing kids such a good tool! I believe it will assist my son in Math and Science courses and etc. Although it is a little expensive, I think it is great investment and a very useful tool for my son’s learning.

If you want to save some money, the standard edition (TI-84 Plus) may be a good choice, although silver edition provides a few additional preloaded programs, the standard edition (TI-84 Plus) provides wonderful functions as well and it is also recommended for PSAT/SAT test-takers. In order to let your child prepare PSAT/SAT early, to buy the graphing calculator is a definite good idea, since your child will have enough time to get used to it and use it efficiently to achieve a good score in PSAT/SAT.

Teenagers love high-tech “toys”, I think it is a great idea to meet their needs while guide them to use these “toys” to learn and use them as learning tools will definitely pay off.

Depends on each family’s financial situation and parents’ budget for their teens’ present, we recommend Apple iPod shuffle or Apple iPod nano or iPod touch. We bought an Apple iPod shuffle and gave my 9th grader son last year, and he really loves it, I saw he used it for history study listening the update world news(Podcast), he got very good grades on history course. This Christmas we bought an Apple iPod nano, which can be used to watch videos(Video Podcast) besides listening to audio, I think by using it, my son will have chance to learn more and more. For college students, we recommend Apple iPod touch, which can be used to access internet, read e-mails etc. because it has built-in wireless capability.

Thanks for these beautiful, portable and useful high-tech “toys”, teenagers really love them!