Using your calculator in Year 7
With the introduction of the National numeracy assessment in May 2008, it is important that Year 7 students have an opportunity to become familiar with their calculators early in the school year. Calculators are commonly used with problems that involve operating with measurements and quantities not easily handled with written or mental techniques and often involving fractions, decimals and percentages. In particular, the topic of operations with rational numbers from the Mathematics Years 7-10 syllabus (NS4.3) includes helping students to learn to interpret a calculator display in formulating a solution to a problem by appropriately rounding a decimal. It will be helpful in familiarising students with the use of calculators to review or introduce this topic along with applying the four operations to money in real-life situations (NS3.4) early in Year 7.
Using your calculator in Year 7 (PDF 136 - KB)
The PDF includes types of questions that might be used to help students become familiar with their calculators through the Mathematics syllabus.
In addition, the questions related to consumer arithmetic could also be used as the basis of activities to familiarise students with their calculators.
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