Calculators: Are They a Tool or Crutch? – Math Tutor – Carlsbasd – Vista – Oceanside
by Stuart Raffeld
Calculator overuse often has a damaging effect on students’ abilities to manipulate numbers, especially fractions. This leads to a weakness in manipulating equations with variables in later classes. I constantly see students using calculators to multiply 30 x 40 or 1/2 x 8. Many teachers realize that students are weak with numbers, but few seem to take appropriate steps to correct this.
Nearly every high school student in Washington owns a TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator that is, arguably, harder to pry from their hands than a smartphone. It should be noted that, although these calculators are allowed in AP Calculus, the University of Washington does not allow graphing calculators in its first year calculus series
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