Prime Graphing Calculator – Multi-Touch 3.5" Color Display (HP)

Set Amazon search category to Books. Type “HP Prime Calculator”. Find textbook quality Arithmetic, Algebra, and College Math resources for the cost of a fast-food meal. Don’t let the inexpensive prices fool you. These are great resources that help you unlock your calculator’s power. Best Math Tool in Today’s Classroom. Most powerful Math assistant allowed in today’s classroom. With phones and other Internet electronic devices being banned, the HP Prime Calculator will give you a virtual assistance that allows to acquire and become proficient with any math skill from arithmetic to advanced calculus. HP Prime Calculator is a real sleeper, the usefulness of Matlab or Wolfram Mathmatica in a tool that is easy to use. Textbook style input by templates with vibrant color touch screen allow for easy entry of math problem, plus flyout popup menus and soft key tabs make work a pleasure. Its textbook output with built-in power functions and applications is easy augmented by your functions. Start your understanding of your calculator by using your familiarity with Arithmetic to concentrate on the Prime’s interface and textbook style input and output feature. After the quick review of your Arithmetic, use the Algebra and College Math textbooks to learn advanced features of your calculator be viewing their hundreds of applications. The same applications can serve as invaluable aid for High School Algebra, Advanced Algebra, and Statistic courses. Let the eBook listed serve as a handy reference. It can be viewed on your phone, tablet, or computer. Note that the Arithmetic and College Math paperbacks found includes references to YouTube videos using screenshots and virtual emulator. These screenshots and emulator allow you to see your calculator in action. A web reference is given in the paperbacks for free parallel web-based material that is digital linked to all the paperbacks’ references and their YouTube videos. See Amazon Book HP Prime Calculator. Search listing for explanations of the shown screens in this review. HP Prime Calculator has a download identical virtual version for Windows and Mac and plus HP connectivity program that allows you to use your computer for work at home and then easily transfer your work to your handheld HP Prime Calculator for classroom use. To augment your HP Prime handheld classroom Calculator, there is a free/lite version of the HP Prime Calculator for iPhone and Android phones and tablets. Plus, a paid Pro version with programming. The phone and tablet free/lite and Pro version allow you to have a HP Prime with you at all times. Using variables for functions and nested functions you can accomplish limited programming but extremely powerful programming tasks on any versions of HP Prime, free/lite, Pro, virtual, or physical calculator. Below, we give you some possible starting points for variable creations in math courses. We like programming through variables as it works for handheld, virtual, pro, and free/lite versions. Search the internet for text and video instructions on how to use these powerful variables. You can easily add these variables to your handheld. Using copy and paste highlight the desired collections of functions you wish to add. Transfer them to your virtual Window or Mac HP Prime Calculator. Next backup the virtual and use this backup to restore your handheld HP Prime Calculator. Remember to rename handheld as it now has virtual name. Note for copy and paste are in computer form but will show in calculator in textbook form. College Algebra Plus Algebra of Calculus Lines slopeln(x1,y1,x2,y2):=((y2-y1)/(x2-x1)) lineptm(x1,y1,m):=(m*('x'-x1)+y1) linept1pt2(x1,y1,x2,y2):=lineptm(x1,y1,slopeln(x1,y1,x2,y2)) (line for two, points, linept1pt1, requires slopeln and lineptm) Rational Expressions - Algebra of Calculus msec(a,h):=((F1(a+h)-F1(a))/h) mtan(a):=limit(simplify((F1(a+h)-F1(a))/h),h,0) mtan2(a):=limit(simplify((F1(x)-F1(a))/(x-a)),x,a) secline(x1,h):=simplify(lineptm(x1,F1(x1),msec(x1,h)))) tanline(x1):=simplify(lineptm(x1,F1(x1),mtan(x1))) (all functions use F1) (secline requires slope of secline, msec) (tanline requires slope of tanline, mtan) (secline and tanline requires Finite Math line point slope, lineptm) Algebra Absolute Value and Distance distrnl(a,b):=ABS(b-a) dist(d,r,t):=solve(d=r*t,x) arithn(d,f,n):=(f+(n-1)*d) arithsum(f,l,n):=(n/2*(f+l)) arithsum1(d,f,n):=(n/2*(f+arithn(d,f,n))) Trigonometry Complex Numbers P_to_R(r,a):= (r*COS(a)+r*SIN(a)*i) R_to_P(x,y):=(CAS(collect(ABS(x+y*i)))+"∡"+CAS(collect(ARG(x+y*i)))) Finite Math Finance sint(a,p,r,t):=ROUND(solve(a=p*(1+r*t),x),2) cpint(fv,pv,r,m,t):=ROUND(solve(fv=pv*(1+r/m)^(m*t),x),2) loan(pv,pmt,r,m,t):=ROUND(solve(pv=pmt*((1-(1+r/m)^(-m*t))/(r/m)),x),2) ira(fv,pmt,r,m,t):=ROUND(solve(fv=pmt*(((1+r/m)^(m*t)-1)/(r/m)),x),2) Linear Programming - Step by Step to check manual work pivmat(m,r,c):=CAS(pivot(CAS(mRow(1/m(r,c),m,r)),r,c)) Sets and Probabilities prsubL1(a,b):=DIFFERENCE(a,b) prsubL2(a,b):=DIFFERENCE(a,b) complement(a,b):=DIFFERENCE(a,b) For these added powerful programming examples, there are free text/screenshot webpages and YouTube videos with emulator instructions to get you started with these. The internet search function is your friend. Lastly, we not that the HP Prime Calculator is two calculators in one. A quick startup would be to use the simpler HOME calculator arithmetic side. The other calculator is the CAS, Computer Algebra System, an algebraic, calculus, and advanced math calculator that requires more time and resources to master. With Covid-19 and the use of virtual schooling students have fallen behind. As there are two calculators in one with the HP Prime Calculator the HP Prime HOME side can be used to learn the calculator for students in Algebra and Advanced Math courses but can also be used as a bridge to help upper elementary middle school student with gaps in their arithmetic knowledge. Search Amazon and the web for resources on using the HOME HP Prime Calculator side for these younger students. Giving them a crutch to temporarily plug their gaps while preventing them from falling further behind is valuable use of the HP Prime physical Calculator.

I am attending grad school and needed a good scientific calculator. This was rated as the most powerful out there, but I thought I would need to learn HP's reverse Polish Notation, so I got comfortable with that before making this purchase. It turned out I not only didn't need to use reverse Polish, but it is somewhat discouraged because of the way this can handle equations. You simply type the equation you want, and it makes it absolutely simple to complete the equation on a large screen. Far easier than any other calculator I've tried. I also read there is a huge learning curve for this, but that's only for the advanced features, and the ones I've tried have been incredibly easy to learn. Easily the best calculator I've ever used.

I used TI calculators my whole life, so this was quite the learning curve for me. As an Engineering student in college, this calculator has been a great help for helping me check my work, as well as get numerical answers. The touchscreen helps a lot with graphing, as you can just swipe around rather than slowly move around with a cursor, or arrow keys. The battery life is far worse than my TI-84 Plus CE, but the processing power and the touchscreen will do that. It does charge relatively quickly. The only issue I've had with this calculator, is registering the SN for warranty. I had to call HP, and get transferred multiple times, as the online registration would not take the SN. The person on the phone did say that the warranty was manually registered for me, so I'm assuming all is well with that. Also, the SN will scratch off of the back, so I would take a picture of it before it inevitably becomes unreadable. Another slight issue was with charging while asleep. When you plug the calculator in, it automatically powers on. If you turn it off, then turn it right back on, the charging symbol take a couple seconds to show up, as if it's not charging while powered off. However I have figured out that it will in fact charge, it just takes it a second to register that it actually did charge. I also wish they would be on USB-C by now, but I can forgive that.

Sadly, the HP Prime is probably the last calculator that will be made by HP. As such, they decided to go out with a bang. The calculator is beautiful, and very, very fast. The touch screen is gorgeous and it is a joy to use. Compare this to a TI calculator that is probably still using a Z80 from the eighties and it will blow you away. That said, be sure to verify that you will be allowed to use your Prime in any tests that you may take. It is not approved for all tests. HP has licensed the future of the Prime calculator to licensees Moravia Consulting and Royal Consumer Information Products, Inc. So the Prime calculator does indeed have a future. Things to know and look for before buying a HP Prime are: It doesn't do RPN. Sorry. For RPN I can recommend the SwissMicro DM42. I love mine. There are two versions available, the G1 and the G2. The G2 is the more powerful version and has the base part number of "2AP18AA". The US version, which has the suffix of "#ABA" includes a wallwart and a charging cable. The European version has the suffix of "#B1S" and has only the charging cable. Both versions will have "G2" on the back of the calculator. Please check before you buy. Rumors of a G3 version (as of 2023) are just that, rumors. Sites that advertise HP Prime calculators, but do not include the "2AP18AA" part number are most likely not selling a G2. And you definitely want a G2, it's about three times faster than a G1.

The only problem I have with it is it seems to lock up when I charge it with my computer. Once, I charged it with my computer and unplugged it without looking. Plugging it in must have turned it on and disabled auto-off. It was dead when I grabbed it for school. The reset button won't delete the time or settings or anything that I saw. Speaking of which, the time is always displayed and the battery indicator will show percentage if you tap on it. I've read you get about 24 hours to a battery, I'm not certain. I've had it a few weeks and I've had to charge it twice not counting the initial charge. I use it quite a bit as an engineering student. I wish it had an engineering button, but you can set it to engineering notation, or scientific notation, and set the number of decimal places displayed. CAS works great and indefinite integrals work great. This calculator will perform matrix operations with complex numbers natively, so you don't have to download other software to analyze AC circuits. You can even create matrices from the home screen and preform operations on them without using a menu. It has the Laplace transform if you're doing differential equations, and I'm sure it has a gigantic library of functions I've yet to scratch the surface of. The notes app allows you to use a ridiculous number of characters, so if you need omega or mu, etc, you're set. The only problem is subscripts revert to normal text when you exit the program. Not sure why. It's the fastest calculator on the market to my knowledge. 3D graphs are instant and you can zoom/ scroll with the touchscreen. RPN is supported and you'll try it to see what the hype is, then get hooked. Unfortunately, it uses a language I'm not familiar with and Python only works on the computer as far as I know. You can upload to the calculator after writing it. I believe you can program functions without the program app, just creating it and saving it. I don't like that you can see the screen better when it's upside down. You don't notice it looking at it while holding it, but set it on the desk in front of you and the pixels dim quickly. Turn it upside down and you can see it fine from shallow angles. In my opinion it's the superior calculator on the market and thanks to TI's strangle hold on schools, it's cheaper than a TI84 Plus CE. To put it in perspective the TI84 Plus CE is three times faster than a regular Plus at 48MHz. The Prime has a 528MHz clock.

The item came in a cardboard box, and within the box was a sealed bag with the calculator inside. The calculator was in its regular store plastic, which is impossible to open without scissors. My fear going in was I couldn't see what model the calculator was from within the packaging. I only ordered this item because I wanted the G2 revision of the calculator, as I already have the G1 version (that should tell you how much I love the calculator). After cutting open the plastic, I checked the back of the calculator and was relieved that it was, in fact, the G2 model (model number 2AP18AA and hardware revision D), meaning the name of this listing is correct. It was also brand new and perfect out of the box, so I am very pleased with the seller/purchase. I believe this is the most powerful calculator, with some of the most useful features thanks to the touch screen. I would recommend it over many TI calculators, unless your class heavily integrates TI calculators into its textbook. However, there is a massive learning curve that I am still learning.

When it works it’s fast and good. However battery life is awful. You have to charge it every other day. With a micro usb. Which in 2025 is ridiculous. I bought it last semester and it was good, then it wouldn’t charge. I went through the trouble shooting and it still won’t charge nor turn on. The sticker for the serial number is easily scratched and I can’t put in a warranty claim. I’m going to buy the NumWorks calculator and hope for the best

I am in college for engineering and needed a calculator for complex math and calculus. So far I only used some basic functions like the linear equation solver and the graphing function. I also tried CAS mode but found it easier to plot my function and find the intercepts on the graph. It's nice that the screen is a touch screen and the processor keeps up when you pan and pinch to zoom in and out of the graph view. This is a really powerful tool. It's like basically having a baby version of Matlab or Wolfram Mathmatica on you at all times. My professor even complimented me on my calculator. All the other students in my class have either the ancient Ti-84 or Ti-83 with the black and white screen and AAA batteries or the Ti-84 plus ce with color screen and rechargable battery in compact size and the HP Prime helps me to stand out from the crowd and gives me capabilities on par with some of my computational computer programs. I also have some experience with the Ti-Nspire which is one of the comparable models from a competing calculator company. I'd say the Prime is alot easier to use than the Nspire becasue of stuff like the touch screen, the better processor, and the nicer build quality. The build quality is also really nice. The buttons are basically hardened rubber and the faceplate is made of brushed metal. The device feels dense and sturdy. The footprint is also a nice size. It will easily stow away in a book bag or a desk drawer. I had a problem however with the right arrow button and the 1 button being unresponsive to clicks. I would feel the button actuate and hear a click but the calculator didn't register the input. I would then have to go back and push th ebutton again harder this time to get the button to register. Hopefully this is something that will resolve itself after I break in the keypad. The battery life is okay and will easily last a day or two. I do wish that the calculator had usb type C instead of micro B but it isn't that big of a deal. I heard that the calculator also takes the same batteries as an old Samsung Galaxy phone so maybe I'll look for some replacement batteries to hotswap them when they die. This might also be a good plan for test taking becasue you dson't want your calculator battery to suddenly die so it might be good to get a few backups. I bought this from a third party seller becasue they offered the fastest prime shipping. However when I recieved my the transparent plastic blister packaging was already opened. However the product and accessories looked brand new. The protective plastic film was still on the screen. This might have something to do with the unresponsive button issue I brought up earlier.