For years educators have debated the merits of calculators in the classroom.
New findings raise questions about their effectiveness, especially among minority children.
Education Reporter Celeste Ford has the story. At East Side Middle School in Manhattan, students are asked to problem solve. For example, when is it cost effective to buy a season's pass to a movie theater. The students then use a calculator to help graph their findings. Calculators make mathematics less tedious, but there's a downside for struggling students, and new study underscores that point.