Ban Calculators?
Just catching up on last week’s reading and found the Conservative’s latest idea from the NC Review. Banning calculators in early years of Primary school.
As someone planning a one device per child school you’d think I’d be up in arms. But I teach maths. And most pupils arrive at our school aged 11 and don’t know their times tables. And it genuinely does hold them back for the rest of their mathematical (and general) lives. Technology is wonderful, but basic literacy and numeracy skills are still vital and will be for the foreseeable future.
What do you think?