TI-Nspire For Dummies
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You can sort data when working in the Lists & Spreadsheet application on the TI-Nspire. Perhaps you want to sort the data that’s contained in column C from the two-dice experiment to see how the sums are distributed. Follow these steps and refer to the screen images.

  1. Select columns A, B, and C.

    Move the cursor to the column/list name area located at the top of the column and press the

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    key once to select the column. While holding the [SHIFT] key, press the Touchpad keys to select the additional columns.

  2. Press [MENU]→Actions→Sort (alternatively, right-click by pressing [CTRL][MENU]→Sort).

    At the warning prompt, press [ENTER].

  3. Press [CLICK] to see the choices for Sort By, and select c.

  4. Press [ENTER] to sort by Ascending or highlight this field and change it to Descending and press [ENTER].

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Notice in the third screen, the formulas in the formula row have been deleted. The formulas will be deleted anytime you do a sort on a column containing a formula. Your random numbers are now static and recalculate no longer gives you a new set of random numbers. Pressing [CTRL][ESC] undoes the sort and restores all the formulas in the formula row.

If you select only column C and do a sort, the relationship among columns A, B, and C is lost. Each value in column C is likely not to equal the sum of the two numbers to its left.

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Jeff McCalla teaches Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis. He is a T3 instructor for Texas Instruments and co- founder of the TI-Nspire SuperUser group. Steve Ouellette wrote the first edition of TI-Nspire For Dummies as well as CliffsNotes® Guide to TI-Nspire.

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