Groping and Hoping for a Consensus on Calculator Use [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5627677
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1999
- 18 p.
- Summary:
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This issue of Mathematics Education Dialogues focuses on the use of calculators in the mathematics classroom. The eleven articles on this theme include: (1) "Groping and Hoping for a Consensus on Calculator Use" (Zalman Usiskin); (2) "Let's Abolish Pencil-and-Paper Arithmetic" (Anthony Ralston); (3) "Do We Need Calculators?" (Kim Mackey); (4) "How Our Readers Feel about Calculators" (Cynthia Ballheim); (5) "The Research Backs Calculators" (Donald Dessart, Charleen M. deRidder, and Aimee J. Ellington); (6) "Ensuring That All Children Are Powerful Technology Users" (Charlene Morrow); (7) "A Calculator Tour around Canada and the United States" (Johnny Lott); (8) Questioning the Use of Calculators in the Elementary Grades" (Frank Wang); (9) "Calculators at the Elementary School Level? Yes, It Just Makes Sense" (Randall I. Charles); (10) "Tools for Mathematical Understanding in Middle School" (Perry Montoya and Vicki Graber); and (11) "A Revolution in My High School Classroom" (Gail Burrill). The final article is from an excerpted paper by Lars-Eric Bjork and Hans Brolin entitled "An Attempt in Sweden at Consensus." (ASK)
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- Availability: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1593.
- ERIC Note: "Mathematics Education Dialogues" is published as a supplement to the NCTM "News Bulletin.".
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- Mathematics Education Dialogues, v2 n3 May-Jun 1999.
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- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA
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