The minicalculator can be used effectively in the class room to encourage student inquiry and creativity through experimentation with mathematical ideas. The benefit of the calculator is multiplied when the experimentation requires computations that are too difficult or time-consuming to be done by paper-and-pencil algorithms. (See “Minicalculators in Schools,” Mathematics Teacher or Arithmetic Teacher January 1976.)
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