Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom

Monograph No. 5:

Calculators in the Classroom

November 1977

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

Foreward

Calculators are here to stay: To be more specific, electronic hand calculators are being increasingly used as an instructional aid in the school and as a convenience in the home. This is not to say that calculators will always receive such high attention. The slide rule, abacus, and even the ordinary pencil and paper have all “had their day” and continue to be used in varying degrees.

The purpose of this Monograph is to present a variety of papers addressed to the use of calculators in the schools. Educators in Britain, U.S.A., and Canada were invited to submit articles either for initial publication or in reprint form from other journals. Articles from the November 1976 issue of THE ARITHMETIC TEACHER devoted entirely to calculators are not used in this publication because of their availability to most schools at present.

You are encouraged to sample the opinions and make up your own mind, peruse the specifications and buy appropriately, study the research and consider implications for your classroom, and select activities which will supplement and enrich the mathematics curriculum for your students.

K. Allen Neufeld

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Front Matter

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FOREWORD

K. Allen Neufeld

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PART ONE: Opinions

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CALCULATORS IN THE CLASSROOM: PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL

Ronald J. Baron

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CALCULATING MACHINES IN SCHOOLS: Scottish Central Committee on Mathematics

D. C. Fraser and John A. R. Hughes

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COMPUTATIONAL SKILL IS PASSE: Editorial Panel – The Mathematics Teacher

Henry B. Tunis

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THE INFLUENCE OF CALCULATORS ON MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM

Joseph F. Hohlfeld

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CALCULATORS – A REVIEW

Marie Hauk

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PART TWO: Specifications

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SO YOU WANT TO BUY A CALCULATOR

Daniel T. Dolan

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SPECIFICATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS

David Jerson and Frank Kurley

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PART THREE: Research

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SURVEY OF THE USE OF HAND-HELD CALCULATORS IN MATHEMATICS CLASSES IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

James M. Sherrill

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THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF DESK CALCULATORS ON ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTITUDE OF CHILDREN WITH LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS

Kan Advani

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THE USE OF THE MINI-CALCULATOR IN THE CLASSROOM

Gus Hawco and John McGrath

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A COMPARISON OF ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS USING CONVENTIONAL OR CALCULATOR- BASED ALGORITHMS FOR OPERATIONS ON POSITIVE  RATIONAL NUMBERS IN NINTH-GRADE  GENERAL MATHEMATICS

Gilliam L. Gaslin

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THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF DESK CALCULATORS ON ATTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT WITH LOW- ACHIEVING NINTH GRADERS

Joseph P. Cech

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A POCKET CALCULATOR EXPERIMENT WITH FIFTH-AND SIXTH-GRADERS

James Jordan and Gerard Bomotti

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PART FOUR: Activities – Junior and Senior High

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USING ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS

David S. Fielker

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PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS AND MINI-COMPUTERS IN HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS: A SURVEY OF POSSIBILITIES

Evert Karman and  Irwin J. Hoffman

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SOME USES OF PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING

Martin LaBar

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THE POCKET CALCULATOR AS A TEACHING AID

Eli Maor

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THE HAND CALCULATOR IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS

Allan Gibb

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PART FIVE: Activities – Elementary and Junior High

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EXCITING EXCURSIONS IN NUMBER THEORY WITH AN ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR

Sister Yvonne Pothier

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EXPERIENCES WITH THE HAND-HELD CALCULATOR IN TEACHING COMPUTATION, PROBLEM-SOLVING, AND FRACTIONS

George Immerseel

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GAMES WITH THE POCKET CALCULATOR

Sivasailam Thiagarajan and Harold D. Stolovitch

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THE HAND-HELD CALCULATOR

Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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PROBLEM-SOLVING PRACTICE VIA STATISTICAL DATA

K. Allen Neufeld

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