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  • Linwood Holton Elementary School
  • Richmond, VA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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There are times, in Mathematics, where getting the answer is the most important thing. There are other times, when what is important isn’t getting the answer, but how you got the answer. For example, when assessing if a student understands that to find the area of a triangle you have to multiply the base times the height and divide by two. The important thing in this assessment is the formula, not the calculation. Students often get bogged down in the computation of Math and forget the formulas, when often times it is the “HOW” of a problem that is the most important part. With a little assistance from a calculator, we remove the stress of the computation to ensure that what we are actually assessing, be it area of shapes in Geometry or Order of Operation, is being shown by our students. Having a class set of calculators will also assist us during testing, making even the playing field so that every students has the opportunity to have the best possible outcome. Of course there are times when we want students to figure it out in their head, those who can. But, for those who can’t, and in those times when the head work just isn’t necessary, having a calculator could improve the quality and confidence of many of our students.

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There are times, in Mathematics, where getting the answer is the most important thing. There are other times, when what is important isn’t getting the answer, but how you got the answer. For example, when assessing if a student understands that to find the area of a triangle you have to multiply the base times the height and divide by two. The important thing in this assessment is the formula, not the calculation. Students often get bogged down in the computation of Math and forget the formulas, when often times it is the “HOW” of a problem that is the most important part. With a little assistance from a calculator, we remove the stress of the computation to ensure that what we are actually assessing, be it area of shapes in Geometry or Order of Operation, is being shown by our students. Having a class set of calculators will also assist us during testing, making even the playing field so that every students has the opportunity to have the best possible outcome. Of course there are times when we want students to figure it out in their head, those who can. But, for those who can’t, and in those times when the head work just isn’t necessary, having a calculator could improve the quality and confidence of many of our students.

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