1970•The Mathematical GazetteRequires access

Hand Calculators: A 1969 Report on their use in Schools

P. A. Reynolds

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“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

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Key concepts: Desk, Realisation, Mathematics education, Value (mathematics), Order (exchange), Computer science, Computation, Mathematics