Monograph,  No. 5,  Publications,  Technology

THE POCKET CALCULATOR AS A TEACHING AID

Monograph No. 5: Calculators in the Classroom

November 1977

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

123 – 129

THE POCKET CALCULATOR AS A TEACHING AID

Eli Maor

Since its first appearance in the market about five years ago, the pocket calculator has quickly become everyone’s home tool, as common as the transistor radio or the cassette tape recorder. The increasing variety of calculators, combined with their generally declining prices, has made them available to more and more people. As a result, even people who previously had no interest in mathematics have begun to express an interest in the properties of numbers, the operations with them, and the relations that exist among them.