TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator Menus
Most TI-84 Plus graphing functions and commands you use are found in the menus housed in the calculator. To get the most out of your calculator, you need to know how to find and select menu items.
Access TI-84 Plus calculator menus
Each menu has its own key or key combination. For example, to access the Math menu, press [MATH]; to access the Test menu, press [2nd][MATH]. An example of the Math menu appears in the first image.
Some menus, such as the Math menu, contain submenus. This is also illustrated in the first image. This picture shows that the submenus in the Math menu are MATH, NUM, CPX, and PRB (Math, Number, Complex, and Probability). Repeatedly press
to view the items on the other submenus; repeatedly press
to return to the Math MATH submenu. This is illustrated in the second and third images.
Scroll TI-84 Plus calculator menus
After the number 7 in the first two images, a down arrow indicates that more items are available in the menu than appear on-screen. There’s no down arrow after the 7 in the third picture because that menu has exactly seven items.
To see menu items that don’t appear on-screen, repeatedly press
To get quickly to the bottom of a menu from the top of the menu, press
Similarly, to quickly get from the bottom to the top, press
Select TI-84 Plus calculator menu items
To select a menu item from a menu, key in the number (or letter) of the item or use
to highlight the number (or letter) of the item and then press [ENTER].
Some menus, such as the Mode menu, require that you select an item from a list of items by highlighting that item. The list of items usually appear in a single row and the calculator requires that one item in each row be highlighted.
To highlight an item, use
to place the cursor on the item and then press [ENTER] to highlight the item.
