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Peer reviewedWatson, F. R. – Mathematics in School, 1975
The teaching of non-numerical flow charting to all pupils is advocated as a means of preparing students for decision making. Several sample problems are provided. (SD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Curriculum, Flow Charts, Instruction
Snover, Stephen L.; Spikell, Mark A. – 1979
The message of this article is that there are many types of problems ordinarily requiring advanced techniques or special insight to solve which can now be done as simple programming exercises on inexpensive programmable calculators. Several examples appropriate for the secondary school curriculum are given. These are: (1) evaluating polynomials;…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculators, Computation, Curriculum
