BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CASIO PRISM

Content:  This document covers a very approximate and preliminary description of the mathematical capabilities of the Casio Prism graphing
calculator and some comments on its similarities to the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus. More information may be added as I become more familiar with
this calculator.

Disclaimer:    This brief review is not intended as a comprehensive or complete review the prism calculator, but is merely a preliminary description to
give students some idea of the capability of the calculator.  This review is written from the perspective of a college math teacher and, like the other
parts of this website, has no information that would be useful to gamers or people interested in the calculator as an entertainment device. I do not
own a Casio Prism calculator.  So the information included in this review has been obtained from various places on the Internet and from my
occasional use of the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus.

Date of Composition:  12/10/10           Release Date:  Not released.        Last Revision Date:  1/24/11

General Comments:  As one might expect, this is not a new calculator started from scratch, but is very similar in some respects to the Casio
CFX-9850GB Plus.  The user interface is icon driven as is the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus, and the categories of most of the icons are similar to
 the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus. The Prism has eighteen icons, whereas the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus has fifteen.  In fact, the keyboard layout
is very similar to the CFX-9850GB Plus, except for some additions on the numbers part of the keyboard.  These additional functions are as  follows:
 Capture, Clip, Paste, Ins, Undo, Catalog, Format, List, Mat.

Additional Capabilities:   Some of the functions that have been added that were not on the  CFX-9850GB Plus are as follows: eActivity,
Spreadsheet, E-Con2, Geometry.  It also has copy and paste features. It has a Math Input/Output mode which the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus
does not have. 
     Picture Plot lets you plot points that represent coordinates on a photograph, drawing, or other graphic and perform various types of analyses.  For example,
a regression analysis on a curve in an illustration could be performed
     A computer will recognize the calculator when the calculator is plugged into a USB port, and screen capture can be accomplished without additional  third-
party software. 

Display: I should not fail to mention that the fantastic advancement of this calculator is the amount of memory and the display resolution and number of colors
that it has. I will not attempt to describe the display and the features that are available with this display.  You can best see this at the following website.
http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/01/18/casio-prism-the-first-full-color-graphing-calculator/

Impressive Features:  The calculator has 65,000 colors, a high resolution 384 x216 display and 16 MB of flash memory. 

Some Functions of Interest: