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Calculators in the ABE/GED Classroom: Gift or Curse?

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Manly, Myrna – Adult Learning, 1998

The issue of calculator use in the Adult Basic Education/General Education Delivery (GED) classroom has arisen because of a recommendation that calculators be permitted on the mathematics part of the GED test. Teachers and supervisors are challenged to make calculator use enhance mathematics education. (JOW)

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Calculators, High School Equivalency Programs, Mathematics Education

Gender and Attitudes toward Computers and Calculators: Their Relationship to Math Performance.

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Munger, Gail F.; Loyd, Brenda H. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989

Describes study of 60 high school students that examined the relationship between mathematics performance, students' attitudes toward computers and calculators, and whether the relationship is similar for males and females. Results indicate that both male and female students with more positive attitudes toward computers and calculators perform…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Calculators, Computer Assisted Instruction