Monograph,  No. 5,  Publications,  Technology

THE HAND CALCULATOR IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS

Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom

November 1977

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

130 – 146

THE HAND CALCULATOR IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS

Allan Gibb

Calculation is an integral part of elementary school mathematics. In the junior and senior high school it has, until somewhat recently, been downgraded relative to the ideas, theorems, and formulas of secondary school mathematics. True, numbers were involved in factoring quadratics, in computing areas, and so on, but there was a tendency to make numerical situations artificially simple so as not to distract from the central ideas.