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Get the most from your calculator

Below are a vast array of instructional materials designed to help students understand their calculator and become practiced at carrying out various calculations. These resources are duplicated in the student area of the project maths website so that students may use them for themselves.

New Instructional Videos for Casio fx-83GT 

Correlation Coefficient on fx-83GT

Calculate correlation coefficient on your Casio fx-83GT calculator

Standard Deviation from a List

Calculate standard deviation from a list of numbers on your Casio fx-83GT calculator

Standard Deviation from a Frequency Tabl...

Calculate standard deviation from a frequency table on your Casio fx-83GT calculator

Calculator Instructional Videos

Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)

Learn to use your calculator to calculate LCM

Prime Factors & HCF

Learn to find prime factors and find HCF

Calculating Means

Learn to find the mean of a dataset

Random Integers

Learn to generate random integers

Table Function for Graphing

Use your calculator to find couples for plotting a graph

Combinations

Use your calculator to count the number of combinations

Standard Deviation

Learn to calculate standard deviation

Correlation Coefficient

Learn to calculate correlation coefficient

Logarithms

Learn to use your calculator to calculate logs

Verify Mode

Learn to verify solutions on your calculator & see where it's useful in the classroo...

Casio fx-83GT Calculator

Casio fx-85GT Calculator

Sharp Calculator

Why Use Calculators

Used appropriately, calculators are an invaluable tool in today’s maths classroom. They can be used to promote deeper understanding of many maths concepts for example in investigating the properties of numbers or in speeding up rote calculations as part of a much deeper learning activity. It is important that students are proficient in using their calculators and it is also important that students understand the calculations they are doing rather than blindly keying in figures. Students should be encouraged to develop checking strategies so that they have some way of recognising an answer as being reasonable or not. Here is a brief overview of the importance of calculators to students’ maths education.

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