Is Calculator Bad for Grade school kids?

i agree with you 100%. they need to learn to figure these problems out and also some of it is memorization but if they rely on the calculator they will never learn it. it becomes a crutch.

i think that schools are making it too easy for children to become stupid. i believe that they (the administrators) want things to be easy as possible so that they can be underpaid for doing as little as possible. growing up, i wasn't allowed to use a calculator. as crazy as it sounds, i was given an abacus, counting blocks and was told to use my fingers. if you can't get down the basics, you will never learn anything. i think i was finally given a calculator when i took algebra 1 in junior high school.

My son is going into the 3rd grade and is always begging to use my calculator I use for my college studies and i tell him no because he needs to beable to do simple math in his head. I think of it this way he is exercising his brain and will be better off with no calculator until he is in middle school. He is really good at math but he is getting to the point of laziness and i hate to see bright minds brought down by pure laziness.

i'm not yet a parent but i will share to you my actual experience. i think we should not let kids at a very young age especially grade schools to use calculators. we should let them develop analytical and arithmetic skills which they will use in their daily living until they grow up. for example when they make a purchase, calculators are not always readily available, they could do mental calculations and they can protect themselves from being fooled by others especially when receiving their change. when i was young, i could do mental calculations even for large numbers faster than anyone in my class. in college, our course required us to use calculators since we will be computing for huge amounts of money most of the time. accuracy and efficiency is important. i ended up being so dependent on calculators that i even used it for simple computations. now as an adult, i'm finding it hard to compute mentally anymore since i am always dependent on calculators. i think with kids, you should let them develop more of their skills when they are still young and just let them enjoy a convenient life with calculators when they grow up. i also think kids should be developed continuously until they are old enough to decide what's best and convenient for themselves. but for now, you decide what is best for them!

A calculator is not good for children, and if the child is having such a difficult time in math, then he or she needs to consult a tutor.

yes, it is very bad for his memmory

I think its terrible for kids to be so young and use a calculator. Come on some of their head needs to be put to good use. Kids learn easier than adults. Take advantage of it.

I don't like the idea of kids using calculators. When my daughter was in third grade one of her papers in math was on learning to use a calculator. Sometimes the teachers don't care if they do. I don't know how that is teaching them to think.
It is bad enough that they don't spend enough time learning the multiplication basics but now this. They teach them but don't do drills so they just know them without having to think about it.

Calculators are a terrible idea for students at this age. The push to use calculators is largely the result of math curriculums that focus on advanced concepts rather than the basics. At this age, students need to focus on developing solid computational skills. There is plenty of time for applications that require the use of a calculator later.

I am not a parent but I remember that my mom wouldn't let me have a calculator until I knew my multiplication tables.I did learn them and I got my calculator. She will need one when she does algebra but when you are first learning math, I don't think so. Before my calculator, I would figure out Everything with pencil and paper.And if I can't find or use my calculator these days I still use pencil and paper.