AUSTIN — Texas school children should not use calculators until they learn to work through math problems the old-fashioned way — on paper, State Board of Education members said Thursday. The board ...

Your June 28 editorial on math education (“The ‘Why’ of Math”) certainly hit one nail on the head: This country is in serious need of math teachers with solid math training. It’s not enough to have ...

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There are some men who want to watch the the world burn and others who want to offer it easily customizable embedded calculators. Mateusz Mucha belongs to the latter camp. Mucha is a sociologist by ...

When you hear the word calculator, I bet your mind immediately goes to math class and solving problems that can’t be solved efficiently in your head or on paper. While calculators are traditionally ...

In math professor Brian Macon’s class, his Valencia College students are allowed to pull out their calculators for half of the test. At the University of Central Florida, that piece of technology is ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Calculators are useful tools in elementary mathematics classes, if students already have some basic skills, new research has found. The findings shed light on the debate about ...