Every day across America and around the world, students use graphing calculators for mathematical computations, which is a far more powerful computer than we used to send men to the moon in 1969.
And yet, the features students use most were available as early as 1852. If students learned to tap into the full potential of the calculator, they could way beyond math class.
Mr. Pifer, a math teacher at Worthington Christian High School, thinks that using a calculator is comparable to using a hammer or a saw for a carpenter. They are very important to what they do. Using programs in Mr. Pifer's classes are very important because he does not want his students to "get bogged down in the mechanics of the process." Programming calculators is not easy though and requires somewhere to start. 
Mrs. Cain, the Technology teacher at Worthington Christian Highschool, thinks that it is not hard to start programming calculators because it is just giving the computer instructions to do. Mrs. Cain also suggests hour of code on code.org to start programming and learn the basics. Tim Sherrod, the JV soccer coach for Worthington Christian High School and computer programmer, thinks that programming your calculator could help a lot out in the real world because all the basic controls are exactly the same. Programming code is becoming known as a universal language because it is everywhere, and Mr. Sherrod thinks that no matter where you go or do programming will help you. To know that the use of a calculator could affect your job and life one day is pretty incredible. 
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