Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom
November 1977
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
27 – 30
COMPUTATIONAL SKILL IS PASSE: Editorial Panel – The Mathematics Teacher
Henry B. Tunis
Soon nearly everyone who faces an arithmetic problem will be able to call on a low-cost electronic calculator as an aid. For more elaborate calculation, remote communication with a computer will be almost as easy. This development has led many teachers and students to question the high instructional and testing priority currently assigned to speed and accuracy in arithmetic computation. Their doubts have been expressed in a variety of controversial propositions and proposals for curricular change.