Monograph,  No. 5,  Publications,  Technology

CALCULATORS – A REVIEW

Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom

November 1977

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

35 – 41

CALCULATORS – A REVIEW

Marie Hauk

For at least the past two decades, educators have been investigating the potential of using calculating machines as instructional aids in elementary school mathematics. More recently, the availability and increasingly lower cost of the hand-held calculator prompted most teachers and mathematics educators to ask if it should be used in the classroom.