Monograph,  No. 5,  Publications,  Technology

SO YOU WANT TO BUY A CALCULATOR

Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom

November 1977

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

43 – 47

SO YOU WANT TO BUY A CALCULATOR

Daniel T. Dolan

Mathematics educators throughout the country are faced with a new crisis in the classroom, the hand calculator. Prices have decreased dramatically in the face of widespread inflation, and continued lower cost coupled with increased sophistication is predicted. It is now possible to find a simple calculator at the same or lower cost than that of a mathematics textbook.