Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom
November 1977
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
35 – 41
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.