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Hand Calculators: A 1969 Report on their use in Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

P. Reynolds*
Affiliation:
Northumberland College of Education, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne

Extract

“It is clear that desk machines will increasingly be used in schools at all levels”

Some Lessons in Mathematics, 1964

“Machines can illuminate the idea of place value”

Nuffield Project Desk Calculators, 1967

“A realisation that the use of machines has arrived in order to ease any necessary burdens of computation”

Examinations Bulletin No. 1 1963

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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