Calculators--What Is Their Place in Mathematics Classrooms? (All content in one PDF)
May / June 1999

Contents

• Groping and Hoping for a Consensus on Calculator Use
  by Zalman Usiskin, For the Editorial Panel 
• Let’s Abolish Pencil-and-Paper Arithmetic
  by Anthony Ralston
• Do We Need Calculators?
  by Kim Mackey
• How Our Readers Feel about Calculators
  by Cynthia Ballheim, For the Editorial Panel 
• The Research Backs Calculators
  by Donald J. Dessart, Charleen M. DeRidder, and Aimee J. Ellington
• Ensuring That All Children Are Powerful Technology Users
  by Charlene Morrow
• A Calculator Tour around Canada and the United States
  by Johnny Lott, For the Editorial Panel 
• Questioning the Use of Calculators in the Elementary Grades
  by Frank Wang
• Calculators at the Elementary School Level? Yes, It Just Makes Sense! (PDF)
  by Randall I. Charles
• Tools for Mathematical Understanding in Middle School
  by Perry Montoya and Vicki Graber
• A Revolution in My High School Classroom
  by Gail Burrill
• An Attempt in Sweden at Consensus
  Excerpted by Zalman Usiskin from a paper given by Lars-Eric Björk and Hans Brolin

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