NCTM's Position on Calculator Use in Elementary School Includes Which

question 1

Multiple Choice

NCTM's position on calculator use in elementary school includes which of the following ideas?

• A)Calculators are good only for helping students practice procedural skills.
• B)Calculators should not be used until after students have developed mastery of basic facts.
• C)Calculators can promote higher-level thinking and reasoning.
• D)Because calculators are so widely available,it is no longer essential that students learn their basic facts.

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Definitions:

Self-Handicapping Tendencies

Behaviors or attitudes people adopt to create excuses for themselves, so they can avoid self-blame in case of failure.

Symbolic Interactionism

The perspective that people use their understanding of how others view them as the primary basis for knowing and evaluating themselves.

Social Schema Perspective

A framework for understanding how individuals categorize and interpret social information based on cognitive structures.

Social Role Theory

The theory that gender differences in behavior, personality, and self-definition arise because of a long history of role distribution between the sexes and error-prone assumptions that those roles are essential to men and women’s nature.