11-18-2002, 02:41 AM
I honestly don't remember what year they started allowing a calculator for me. The more complicated calculators work exactly like the simple ones except they have a lot more functions. By 6th grade your son should know how to do basic functions without a calculator, so I don't see a big problem with him using one.
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