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New calculators enhance learning experience for Amityville students
Currently, all fourth and fifth-grade classes at Park Avenue have overhead and handheld calculators, which are identical to those that district students will use when they are in sixth grade at the middle school. The district continues to provide ongoing staff development sessions to address how to best integrate the calculators into the instructional process, and Park Avenue teachers have also created folders where they share and exchange lesson plans. "Thanks to the support of Mrs. (Susan) Schnebel and our Board of Education, we now have these calculators that free students from computation by hand, which can be cumbersome, and allows them, and the teachers, to concentrate on building higher-level problem-solving skills, and developing the processes and strategies involved in problem-solving," said Febrarro. In fact, research by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics shows that using scientific calculators increases the problem-solving efficiency of the user, and many general problem-solving strategies are made more feasible and effective with calculators.
Shown in the photo, right, fifth-grade students in Olympia Karounas' Park Avenue Memorial Elementary School classroom in the Amityville Public School District worked collaboratively to problem-solve a series of mathematics puzzles using new calculators the district has provided them.
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