Why calculators should not be used in the classroom?
Why calculators should not be used in the classroom? Calculators make teachers lazy and worse teachers than they should be because they don't have to make sure the problem has numbers to assure their students learn the skill intended. Students are doing a problem that is long, with increasingly longer steps. They are learning patterns, again strengthening their minds. Are calculators bad? Research conducted in response to this found little difference in performance tests whether students used calculators or not. An earlier US study had found the same: the calculator had no positive or negative effects on the attainment of...