Calculators are an invaluable tool when doing maths. As a student you need to become proficient at using your calculator. An important part of this process is learning how your calculator carries out certain calculations. While calculators are an important tool for doing maths, you still need to understand how to do calculations without a calculator and to understand if the results of a calculation are reasonable or not. You’ll find instructional videos, PowerPoints, and activities here to help you get the most out of your calculator.
Using the Calculator
Presentation showing the importance of knowing how your calculator works
Using the Calculator
Here are some word problems gone wrong because of incorrect calculator use
Order of Operations
Numeric problems to help you understand the order in which your calculator operates
HCF and LCM
See how the HCF and the LCM are
used to solve
a real-life problems
HCF and LCM
See how the highest common factor and lowest common multiple are used to solve problems
Mean & Standard Deviation
Learn to use your calculator to find the mean and standard deviation of a dataset
Correlation Coefficient
Use your calculator to find the correlation coefficient of a set of bivariate data
Generating
Random Numbers
Learn to use your calculator
to generate
random numbers
Permutations
Learn how to calculate the number of permutations using your calculator
Combinations:
Practical Applications
Use your calculator to solve problems based on combinations
Combinations
Use your calculator to solve combination problems involving two groups
Logarithms
Use your calculator to solve problems involving exponents and logarithms
Sharp Manual
Overview of how to change settings on your SHARP calculator
SHARP Calculator
Download all of the SHARP calculator resources
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