Is Calculator Bad for Grade school kids?

For a kid in a third year using calculator is kinda sin. If he starts using calculator he would depend on it and his thinking and reasoning ability will be perished. He needs to do calculation traditional way before using any calculators.

As a teacher, though not math, I believe that we should not allow the children to be dependent on technoligical gadgets like calculators until they become independent and/or can use their brain more than relying much on the available technologies for easy living. Calculator is just a machine, it is not permanent. A perosn cannot totally be dependent with it. Childre should be taught to use their brain for permanent learning. Take care=)

good day. I will never let my child use the calculator unless they need the to algorithm in trigonometry and that's saying he/she must be in the high school level before I'll let them use it. It's a lazy way of computing and would no doubt atrophy their logic in math. With that age. they need to think and calculate with their minds using the paper.

For simple math problems? Sure they can use
their own head for that. Or, at least figure
the problem out the long way on paper.

That is what practice is for.
Practice makes perfect as they say
and really it's the only way to learn.

They made us do it.
Don't know why modern kids would be so different!

Kids should not touch a calculator till they do trigonometry. It would make them explore numbers the way a calculator can't. E.g. A person that uses a calculator cannot tell you instantly if 256 or 729 is a perfect square.

I guess it is a nice shot for you because you discipline your child in an early age. Right, i agree on your moves but then you need also to let her use a calculator because as she reach to highschool or college level, she should know how to use this thing because their are subjects that really need calculator for their answers. Well, you should also advice and teach her how to use it.