{"id":3598,"date":"2014-02-10T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:05:51","slug":"math-using-constants-on-the-casio-fx-260solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-using-constants-on-the-casio-fx-260solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  Using constants on the Casio fx-260Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring math, calculator use is perennial. \u00a0The math tutor introduces a nifty trick for the Casio fx-260Solar.<\/h1>\n<p>In physics, you often have a constant in a formula. \u00a0An obvious example is<\/p>\n<p>F=mg, where g=9.8m\/s^2<\/p>\n<p>High school physics students use the above formula hundreds of times.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of ways to use the Casio fx-260Solar so that you don&#8217;t have to enter 9.8 each time.  Here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p>Enter 9.8 then <span style=\"background-color:black;color:white\">X<\/span> <span style=\"background-color:black;color:white\">X<\/span>; doing so defines 9.8 as a multiplication constant.  You&#8217;ll see &#8220;K&#8221; next to the &#8220;DEG&#8221; around top middle of the screen, meaning you&#8217;ve defined a constant.  Now, pressing any number, then <span style=\"background-color:black;color:white\">=<\/span>, will give that number multiplied by 9.8.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as you enter one of the arithmetic keys (let&#8217;s say, for instance, you enter 6 <span style=\"background-color:black;color:white\">X<\/span> 7), the constant is erased; the &#8220;K&#8221; next to &#8220;DEG&#8221; disappears.<\/p>\n<p>In the Casio manual, this feature is referred to as &#8220;Constant Calculations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be saying more about calculator usage in future posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, calculator use is perennial. \u00a0The math tutor introduces a nifty trick for the Casio fx-260Solar. In physics, you often have a constant in a formula. \u00a0An obvious example is F=mg, where g=9.8m\/s^2 High school physics students use the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-using-constants-on-the-casio-fx-260solar\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  Using constants on the Casio fx-260Solar<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,3],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator-usage","category-math","tag-casio-fx-260solar","tag-constant-calculations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30197,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/30197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}