There is a full-featured calculator hidden in your iPad, even though Apple never ported the iPhone Calculator app to its tablets. Actually, there are two of them. Steve Jobs nixed the calculator from ...

When you hear the word calculator, I bet your mind immediately goes to math class and solving problems that can’t be solved efficiently in your head or on paper. While calculators are traditionally ...

iOS/Android/Desktop: Default calculator apps suck. They work like a traditional handheld calculator, which only displays one value at a time and can only do basic math. If you want to do anything more ...

If you’ve got a quick bit of math to figure out on the go, why bother tapping into the Calculator app, which you’ve probably got stuffed in some sort of folder on your third page or so? Even though we ...

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Unlike on the SAT, the use of a calculator is permitted throughout the entire math portion of the ACT. While it is best to avoid calculator use for certain problem types, test-takers should maximize ...

Read more from Slate’s special issue on science education and give us your best ideas for raising the next generation of scientists and engineers. When Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Va., ...

There is no avoiding the constant chatter about AI these days. Really, it’s been months. As a math teacher, this struggle over new technology feels oddly familiar. More than 30 years ago, the National ...

Although calculators have not figured prominently in discussions of the common-core math standards, it’s likely the complementary tests will result in far greater uniformity in their use on state ...