Stylish HP Graphing Calculator Offers Greater Connectivity for Enhanced Classroom Learning

Stylish HP Graphing Calculator Offers Greater Connectivity for Enhanced Classroom Learning

HP today introduced the HP 39gs graphing calculator, which features a hip design and multiple connectivity options, including wireless. The powerful calculator is an ideal high school classroom tool that allows students and teachers to tackle complex math problems and perform other sophisticated operations.

Building on HP’s broad line of calculators, the HP 39gs targets the high school math and science market with more connectivity options than comparably priced calculators. The 39gs offers infrared communications to wirelessly share data and applications with other compatible HP calculators as well as convenient, industry-standard USB and RS232 ports that enable students and teachers to save or download programs to a PC(1) when needed.

In addition, its modern white and grey look and clean lines are designed to appeal to its teenage audience. “The HP 39gs is the ultimate problem-solving tool with its dynamic functionality wrapped in a smart-looking design,” said Fred Valdez, general manager, Calculator Division, HP. “With this new product introduction, HP continues its almost 35-year heritage of delivering innovative products that have shaped the landscape of calculator technology.”

The HP 39gs’ generous memory allows users to create applications and to save their work – such as notes, sketches, equations, formulas, graphs and Aplets(2) – on the calculator for later use, unlike any other calculator in its class. In addition, a built-in Aplet library allows students to learn and explore different mathematical operations at their own pace. One exclusive Aplet is HP Solve, which allows students to find any unknown variable without having to re-enter or modify the original equation. Aplets also can be used as building blocks for larger applications.

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