Seven activities are presented in this student workbook designed for an exploration of small business ownership and the use of the calculator in this career. Included are simulated situations in which students must use a calculator to compute property taxes; estimate payroll taxes and franchise taxes; compute pricing, approximate salaries,…

The calculator is used to explore the distributive property of a unary operator over a binary operator. This is an extension of an earlier paper. The emphasis is on student discovery of the property for various combinations of the operators. Instructional material contained in the report include a reference sheet of questions for potential…

Thirty-two references are included in this annotated listing presented in two sections: books and pamphlets, and periodicals.

The programable calculator is suggested as a means of introducing elementary school students to certain features of computers. A one-hour presentation is described. (MP)

Ten problems involving large calculations are described for classroom use with a calculator. (JT)

Ways in which classroom calculators enriched, supplemented, supported, and motivated the regular sixth-grade mathematics program are discussed. (DT)

Provided is an activity designed to give grades 7-12 students opportunities to discover numerical patterns and to derive general conclusions from observing data. The activity focuses attention on patterns in products such as 33x34, 333x334, and 3333x3334. Three worksheets and answers are included. (JN)

Describes a variety of computer toys and computerized toys for children. Maintains that while the toys provide stimulation, they do not develop children's imaginations. Cautions against allowing computers to alienate society and emphasizes that computerized toys should be used as tools rather than as substitutes for learning. (Author/MJL)

Ways elementary school teachers might use calculators to help students are noted. A total of nine activities, listed under place value, computation, and estimation, are provided to assist the classroom instructor in effectively employing calculators. (MP)

Solutions to difficult equations are illustrated with numerical techniques that can be used easily on calculators. Flowcharts and programs for computers and calculators are included. (MP)

Four categories of abuses are discussed: calculations, games and puzzles; mystical button pushing; and checking answers. Useful activities are illustrated for the categories of calculations, patterns, exploration, applications, and new content. (MP)

Calls for the use of the zoom feature of graphing calculators to help students better understand the concept of derivatives. (MKR)

Investigating properties and characteristics of unary operations is shown to be facilitated by using calculators. Several avenues for instructional exploration are suggested and examples given. These include questions relating to relations, inverses, commutativity, distributivity, and iterations. A discussion of the calculator algorithm for…

Results are given of a 14-question survey of students related to the use of calculators in school. The use of mathematical tables as opposed to calculators is discussed. (MP)

A calculator activity, described as a bingo game, emphasizes speedy calculations as well as problem solving. (JT)