HP Calculator Highlights since the 1980

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(04-01-2018 02:39 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  [...] and teachers wouldn't have liked to teach 1/2 of the students RPN and the other half algebraic depending on what the parents could afford to buy their children. […]

When I was at school and of an age when we were starting to use calculators (basically throughout the '80s), teachers did not teach students how to use them. They allowed students to use them but it was up to the students to learn how to.

It was probably OK for that to be the case at the time because calculators were a means of verification of what we'd done either manually or using trig/log tables. We never used calculators as our primary tool for getting answers.