Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

When I took calculus at night school with three nerdy high school friends, graphing calculators did not exist. Johns Hopkins University mathematics professor Stephen Wilson is happy for me. He says ...

The first handheld graphing calculator, the Casio fx-7000G, appeared in 1985. Since then, graphing calculators have become a common – and controversial – tool for learning mathematics. These devices ...

Step inside any high-school math class in the United States, and chances are you’ll find students staring down at their Texas Instrument calculators, nimbly typing commands into those $100 pocket ...

Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop are right in pointing out that students graduating today need better statistics training than they did a generation ago (“Calculus Is So Last Century,” op-ed, ...

When I took calculus at night school with three nerdy high school friends, graphing calculators did not exist. Johns Hopkins University mathematics professor Stephen Wilson is happy for me. He says ...

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 ...

For the lowest level courses, get the model you will eventually need in a later course (e.g., a student in MATH 1100 who will eventually take MATH 1160 should get a TI-83/84, but a student in MATH ...