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Are students using the calculator to do math, or is the calculator teaching them? Just playing around with the buttons brings up all kinds of interesting questions (what's a polynomial?). Of course, they all learn how to make the graphing feature make "pictures". Don't get an upgrade to color and games, stick with this "basic" model.