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TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« on: February 06, 2013, 06:21:16 pm »
Hello everybody,

Today is a great day !
Indeed, TI is releasing, this thursday (Feb. 7th, 2013), its TI-Nspire iPad applications (both CAS and non-CAS versions, like the Nspire devices themselves).
It is a great day, as I was saying, since, in fact, TI finally answers (and plays a role in) to the evolution in the education market towards a more digital and mobile world... on platforms getting more and more common, powerful, open to third party applications, connected ...
TI therefore changes to be well integrated with what students and schools begin to use as  comprehensive solutions for education, like the iPad (which has on its App Store many educational applications, for example).


We had seen already recently with Steve Arnold (in cooperation with Jim Bauwens), an Nspire-Lua layer for a Javascript Lua interpreter, which is able to run enough Nspire-Lua code in order to launch lua script originally made for the TI-Nspire, and this on any platform powerful enough and capable of running Javascript (so, tablets, for example), but here it's a full native reimplementation of the whole Nspire ecosystem (Calculator, G&G, Spreadsheets, Math Editor...) available on your tablet ! Directly transfer your .tns files up on your iPad, and you'll be able to enjoy your content on a better device with a nicer screen, for instance ;-) !

Here are a few images:
http://imgur.com/a/tpIj9

Presentation video :

Another good news ? The price for both the CAS and non-CAS version is the same : $29.99 !

No doubt an Android version should be released at some point. Indeed, even if the iPad is still selling well, the sales of Android tablets are catching up with iPad ones, thus following the evolution that has made the iOS smartphones sales lower recently.


Press Release text :
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Texas Instruments unveils breakthrough TI-Nspire Apps for iPad®
TI extends its most powerful graphing technology into apps
that will change the way students visualize, engage and interact with math

Now available on the App Store

DALLAS (February 20, 2013) – Texas Instruments (TI), the most trusted brand in graphing calculator technology, “took a major step forward in our mission to improve student understanding and achievement in mathematics” with the release today of two new innovative apps:  TI-Nspire™ App for iPad and TI-Nspire™ CAS App for iPad, said Melendy Lovett, president of Texas Instruments Education Technology. 
 “The apps fill a critical need for an all-in-one math teaching and learning tool designed specifically for the iPad,” said Lovett.  “TI is extending the proven benefits of TI-Nspire technology to the tablet platform.  TI’s goals are to provide educators with the most powerful math apps for the iPad and to engage students while helping them reach a deeper conceptual understanding of math. Beyond the new Apps for iPad, TI continues to support teachers by providing world-class professional development, and access to free classroom-ready activities for use with the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad; activities can be integrated seamlessly into curriculum and are available at TI’s Math Nspired website.”
The TI-Nspire Apps for iPad were designed and refined in collaboration with researchers and classroom teachers, including Stephanie Ogden, Dean of Research and Development at L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville, TN, who also teaches Pre-Calculus, AP* Calculus, AP* Statistics and STEM.
 “The TI-Nspire Apps for iPad are truly transparent technology, allowing students to touch and interact with math with little awareness of the tool in their hands.  Students experience mathematics more directly and they are beyond engaged—they are excited about learning,” Ogden said.
Unique features of the apps, which meet critical curriculum needs from 7th grade through college, include:
  • All-in-one functionality for performing calculations in proper math notation; graphing and exploring functions, equations and inequalities; constructing and exploring geometric figures; creating, plotting and analyzing data in lists and spreadsheets.
  • Interactive keyboard that toggles between math notation and QWERTY configurations for placing notes and instructions alongside problems.
  • Dynamically linked multiple representations of problems that encourage students to make crucial connections by observing how equations change as they touch and interact with shapes, graphs and objects on the screen.
  • Familiar operations for creating and saving documents and sharing them using email, iTunes®, and other file sharing options.
  • Interaction with the built-in iPad camera interface that enables students to take photos, import them into the app and overlay graphs and equations on them to illustrate abstract math principles in the physical world.
In addition, the TI-Nspire CAS App for iPad has a powerful built-in Computer Algebra System (CAS) which enables students to symbolically solve equations, factor and expand variable expressions, complete the square, find derivatives, compute limits, find exact solutions in irrational form and much more.

TI-Nspire Apps for iPad will be featured in two full days of workshops and break-out sessions at the 2013 T3 International Conference held March 8-10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

The TI-Nspire App for iPad and TI-Nspire CAS App for iPad are available for $29.99 each from the App Store on iPad or at http://www.AppStore.com.  Teachers are eligible to receive a free, one-year license of the TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CAS Teacher Software with purchase of one of the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad.  Detailed information about the TI-Nspire Apps for iPad, including a brief video overview, is available at http://education.ti.com/ipad .


About Texas Instruments
Education Technology, a business of Texas Instruments, provides a wide range of tools connecting the classroom experience with real-world applications, helping students and teachers to explore mathematics and science interactively. TI’s products and services are tested vigorously against recognized third-party research, which shows that the effective use of graphing calculators improves the mathematical skills of students and their attitudes toward mathematics. For more information, visit http://www.education.ti.com.

Texas Instruments semiconductor innovations help 90,000 customers unlock the possibilities of the world as it could be – smarter, safer, greener, healthier and more fun.  Our commitment to building a better future is ingrained in everything we do – from the responsible manufacturing of our semiconductors, to caring for our employees, to giving back inside our communities.  This is just the beginning of our story.  Learn more at http://www.ti.com.

Links : (very soon available if not already)
- Official website with more details
- TI-Nspire non-CAS iPad application
- TI-Nspire CAS iPad application
- The other iOS apps from TI

The Australian App Store already has it available, it's just a question of time for Europe and USA :)


Source : http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=11230&lang=en
« Last Edit: February 20, 2013, 05:47:25 am by adriweb »
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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2013, 06:24:19 pm »
That's pretty cool! Can't wait to see if they will support Android as well.

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 06:26:14 pm »
Wow, this is pretty interesting. I can't say that this is something I saw coming. I assume the app can't run any Lua or Nspire Basic programs though right?

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2013, 06:26:18 pm »
I'd get this if they released it for android. My S3 is large enough to do this so I'd think I'd be fine without having an actual tablet.
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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2013, 06:29:02 pm »
I assume the app can't run any Lua or Nspire Basic programs though right?

Oh yes it certainly can. It's not a player, it's the whole Software that has been re-coded (except the Vernier part that isn't there) :)

I'll be testing it very soon and see the Lua API differences if there are any right now.
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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2013, 06:59:38 pm »
I guess Apple's prohibition against "3rd party runtimes" doesn't apply if you're a big company with lots of money. I would have thought that if Apple forbids C64 emulators, there would be no chance of a Lua interpreter.
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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2013, 08:10:11 pm »
So, will we be able to use iPads on exams now? ;)

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2013, 09:38:33 pm »
I assume the app can't run any Lua or Nspire Basic programs though right?

Oh yes it certainly can. It's not a player, it's the whole Software that has been re-coded (except the Vernier part that isn't there) :)

I'll be testing it very soon and see the Lua API differences if there are any right now.
Wow, that's rather shocking. I thought apple was completely against allowing software that had any sort of programming functionality.

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2013, 09:55:58 pm »
I found this April Fool's blog post from a year ago that actually came true! :P

http://www.techpoweredmath.com/apple-texas-instruments-form-alliance/

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2013, 11:07:34 pm »
Another good news ? The price for both the CAS and non-CAS version is the same : $29.99 !

Yeah but how much does the iPad itself cost? D:

That said it's nice to finally see emulators and softwares come out on mobile devices. I hope one day that it will be possible to send calc files from your calc to your phone/tablet or vice-versa, so people downloading programs while using wi-fi or 3G don't have to wait until they're back home before being able to try them.

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2013, 12:07:55 am »
This news is supposed to be embargoed until 9am ET.

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2013, 12:11:38 am »
What do you mean? ???

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2013, 12:12:26 am »
Wut, but who uses apple, so.... :P
They should also make one for android >.>

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2013, 12:12:50 am »
What do you mean? ???
TI told me about 10 times that we weren't supposed to announce anything about this to anyone before 8am CT / 9am ET.

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Re: TI launches the official TI-Nspire iPad application !
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2013, 12:15:24 am »
What do you mean? ???
TI told me about 10 times that we weren't supposed to announce anything about this to anyone before 8am CT / 9am ET.
I dunno what TI told Adriweb, but apparently the app is already in the App Store in Australia, it might had created confusion.

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