Physics Education Forum

For this forum, we will turn our attention to a requested topic: calculators. Specifically, we will focus our discussion on the role of calculators in supporting or hindering students development of mathematical abilities and numerical literacy. To frame this discussion, I encourage you to check out this amusingly named paper which studied calculator usage among college students:

• LaCour, M., Cantú, N. G., & Davis, T. (2019). When calculators lie: A demonstration of uncritical calculator usage among college students and factors that improve performance. Plos one, 14(10), e0223736.