THE BATTLE CRY IS SOUNDED
Perhaps the single most important reason for the increased use of calculators in U.S. classrooms was the widespread adoption of the 1991 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards, which recommended that "every teacher at every level promote the use of calculators to enhance mathematics instruction." Many math educators and boards of education enthusiastically endorsed the NCTM standards and actively promoted the use of classroom calculators from kindergarten through high school.