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Hirsch, Christian R. – Mathematics Teacher, 1986
Provided are four worksheets that are designed to capitalize on the use of calculators as teachers' partners in helping students to develop an intuitive feeling for percentage. Students also learn how to use the calculator's percent key to compute percentages. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Landwehr, James M.; Watkins, Ann E. – Mathematics Teacher, 1985
Activities concern exploring data and using the stem-and-leaf plot for displaying data. The three worksheets present activities, with brief directions for the teacher included. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Tapson, Frank – Mathematics in School, 1985
Exercises are used when beginning work with calculators to help pupils think about what they are doing. Four worksheets are included, with discussion of their objectives. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Shaw, Jean M. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1985
Four worksheets are included, providing practice in estimation, computation, pattern recognition, and problem solving involving calculator use. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
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Cooper, Tom – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1984
This section contains four worksheets for games on estimation. Impact, Crossfire, Fire One, and Fire Two each require the use of calculators to focus on place value, multiplication, or division. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Division, Elementary Education
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Ockenga, Earl; Duea, Joan – Mathematics Teacher, 1985
Three worksheets are given that use calculators to free students from computational restrictions and allow them to focus on the recognition of patterns and the application of numeration concepts in the development of their estimation skills. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Estimation (Mathematics), Instructional Materials
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Coburn, Terrence G. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1987
Four worksheets designed to be used with calculators are presented. For levels 1-2, counting is the focus; levels 3-4, estimation; levels 5-6, use of memory keys; and for levels 7-8, patterns. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hirsch, Christian R., Ed.; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
Activities to extend the core curriculum through the study of the periodicity of rational numbers to help students develop calculator and research skills are presented. Four worksheets are included, to be used as discovery activities. A computer program is listed, as well as examples of periodic pictures. (MNS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Software, Discovery Learning, Instructional Materials