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Parslow, Graham R. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2010
As an undergraduate in the 1960s, the author mostly used a slide rule for calculations and a Marchant-brand motor-operated mechanical calculator for statistics. This was after an elementary education replete with learning multiplication tables and taking speed and accuracy tests in arithmetic. Times have changed and assuming even basic calculation…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills