Casio fx-CG500 Graphing Calculator – Touchscreen with Stylus | CAS Functionality, Drag-and-Drop | Ideal for Advanced Math, Calculus & Engineering

Excellent calculator. I'm well into my career and reviewing my college math and bringing those hard won skills up to date. Specifically calculus, linear algebra, and statistics. To add some fun, I decided to try out all the latest graphing calculators from Ti Casio and hp. So far, this one is coming out on top. Works great, easy to use. Though the pencil is a little awkward, it's functions are straight forward and accessible and it has a nice big screen. I like being able to replace the batteries instead of having to recharge it. And it has lots and lots of functionality and helpful built in memory cues. Somebody put a lot of love into making this machine and it really shows.With that said, I don't like not being able to make the font smaller so I can fit more stuff on the screen. Maybe that's a software thing they'll fix some day. Who knows. And, the use manual is kind of quirky having the examples cross referenced in a separate PDF (though, to be fair, they're really good). But, these are pretty minor complaints compared to the utility and ease of use.Great calculator Casio. Way to go.

Casio deserves a lot of credit for creating a truly innovative product that isn't constrained by outdated design conventions. Many manufacturers are still making calculators with interfaces that are decades old and don't take advantage of modern touchscreen technology. Casio started with a blank slate and designed something optimized for mathematics. The result is a machine that is a joy to use.I've owned many calculators in my life from the 1980s to the present, including classics like the HP 41-CX and HP 50G as well as various TI, Sharp and Casio scientific and engineering models. This is the first time I've used a calculator that did not require me to translate between the calculator's proprietary notation and what you would find in a math textbook or scientific paper. This is a wonderful thing!This machine is a very powerful tool for exploring and learning mathematics and, of course, calculating. The interface for entering equations and making graphs is intuitive and efficient. The display is large enough to view functions side-by-side with their graphs. The touch screen and stylus are precise and sensitive. You can buy calculators with faster processors but, in many cases, the time you might gain in calculation speed you will lose while trying to navigate their frustrating, quirky interfaces. If you love math, you owe it to yourself to get one of these. Well done Casio!

Good luck figuring out what it can do. The manual explains nothing. YouTube has nothing really about it Yes it's the best. The screen is amazing.........So let me help you......YouTube vids on classpad help works for this model. One older guy has a vid showing how to add your own calculations. It works. You create the formula and save it, later just add your number and hit solve. Gas laws, ph, ect saved the formulas and passed Chem. You can connect it to your computer and upload files like formulas and stuff. Has complete periodic table. Can upload images too.Has exam mode as well.Works for statistics, thank god. Has spreadsheets like excel and all the formulas already.But it's not exactly intuitive and nothing is explained on how to use the features. Again. YouTube classpad shortcuts to help.

There seems to be some confusion regarding this calculator and the ClassPad 400. I have both and the only difference between them is the CP400 has a qwerty soft menu keyboard, whilst the new model is non-qwerty. In all other respects they are identical apart from just one personal observation: the touch screen has been slightly changed for the CG500. First I noticed the reflection has changed - it's less sharp and there may be an extra element in it. The other change I've noticed is it is slightly less responsive to the stylus. Tapping did not always seem to register and sliding did not always highlight the whole selected. After using it for a couple of hours I went back to the 400 and there was a distinct improvement in response. BTW, I have two 400 and they are both more responsive than the 500.In conclusion, if you must have a non-qwerty calculator for an exam, the CG500 is an excellent calculator which will last you many years. However, if qwerty is not an issue I would advise buying the CP400 model because of the marginally more responsive screen. There is no difference between the screens when reading the calculations made, they are both just as sharp. I was hoping that Casio would upgrade the chip speed on the 500 but they haven't. Compared with the TI-Nspire and HP Prime the Casio models are slower, but they are lovely calculators to use and remain my favourites despite their bulk.

The UI design of this calculator was just the best fit for me. I could not find a better calculator that fits what I wanted as the UI. To list some: 1) Pressing Shift with On works as Off. 2) The previous calculations remain printed on the screen, so as you continue doing different calculations, you can go back and see what you have done, or check if your input was right. 3) If you want to input something close to your previous input, you can go back with the cursor, recycle and modify it. 4) You can set variables with the name of your like and save them in folders. 5) The Exp key to input the index part of a scientific notation is located within the ten-key (actually twelve-key) block, allowing very natural input. 6) There is a ^ key for calculating power, placed on a par with the four arithmetic operators. 7) Parentheses keys are also included among the basic keys. ... These are just perfect.A significant drawback is that it takes a few seconds to turn On or Off, and the calculation is not as fast as the fastest HP model. That is a bit annoying, but given all the supreme UI interface, I could not think of choosing any other calculator than this.Very satisfied. I like the machine very much.