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Ascendant Graphing Calculator

A full-color graphing studio. Keep the familiar handheld on the left — or work on the big interactive board: type functions live, drag parameter sliders and watch the family of curves animate, pan, zoom, and trace with your mouse, overlay a derivative, area, or tangent line, and read a function's roots, intercepts, and turning points at a glance.

Ascendant GCSTEM Studio Edition

Keyboard works too: type numbers & operators, x for the variable, Enter to evaluate, arrows to trace.

Quick examples

Interactive board

Studio Graph Board

Hover the graph…

Drag to pan · scroll to zoom · double-click to frame · hover for coordinates · Point mode drops a labeled point on the nearest curve.

Editable

Functions

Type any function — it graphs as you go. Click the swatch to recolor, the eye to hide, ✕ to clear. Use a letter like a, k, b and a slider appears below.

Parameters — drag or ▶ to animate

Analyze

Function insight

How to use it
  • On the right: type functions, drag sliders, then read the insight card. On the device: press Y=, type, then GRAPH.
  • X,θ,n is the variable, ^ powers, squares. Functions: sin cos tan, log (base 10), ln, abs(), sqrt(), π, e.
  • Board: drag to pan, scroll to zoom toward the cursor, double-click to frame curves. Trace snaps to a curve; Point drops a labeled coordinate.
  • Sliders: any single letter (not x) becomes an animatable parameter — great for seeing how a in a·x² reshapes the parabola.
  • 2ndCALC on the device finds zeros, intersections, minima & maxima; 2ndTABLE opens a value table.
Become a master user

Master the Calculator

Nine guided modules from first graph to collegiate calculus — each with a Try it button that sets the calculator up for you, so you learn by doing.

The Ascendant Graphing Calculator is an independent educational tool from Dr. Ijezie's STEM Studio. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by Texas Instruments. “TI-84 Plus CE” is a trademark of Texas Instruments, referenced only to describe familiar functionality.