I wouldn’t have thought of introducing calculators to Antonia yet but it’s part of the math program we’re using, so we did it for the sake of completeness.\u00a0 I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that it turned out to be slower and less accurate than getting the answers by working them out on paper.\u00a0 So I suppose there are skills being learned here!\u00a0 Like remembering the string of characters you’re supposed to type into the machine and making sure that they were all registered.<\/p>\n
It’s funny how these exercises often don’t develop the skills they nominally appear to be developing – though I wasn’t sure till now, what skills calculators do develop.\u00a0 We also did a bit of map work with grid referencing.\u00a0 Finding the references was easy.\u00a0 The observation skills needed to find the objects we were supposed to be referencing in a small map… not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wouldn’t have thought of introducing calculators to Antonia yet but it’s part of the math program we’re using, so we did it for the sake of completeness.\u00a0 I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that it turned out to be slower and less accurate than getting the answers by working them out on paper.\u00a0 So … Continue reading Calculator math<\/span>