Archive for the 'calculator' Tag
A Calculator That Requires You to Estimate Before It Gives You The Answer
This calculator might have a future in our underperforming schools: From the moment pupils start using calculators they stop using their heads – for all quantitative work. The detrimental effect on maths education is well known. Calculators, however, cannot be removed from classrooms anymore- they are indispensible because many results can only be received from [...]
Wrongulator: The Calculator That is Always Wrong
The Wrongulator, from Red5, is no ordinary calculator. It is, in fact, the world’s worst calculator as it never gives the right answer, ever! If your calculator has been exchanged for this one then every single calculation you’ve entered in it has been wrong. It is perhaps the cruelest practical joke you could inflict on [...]
