Do you allow your child to use a calculator when doing math homework?

[Earlybird]

Primary school age child?

Secondary school child?

Would their schools frown upon this?

DD1 (12) uses one when teacher specifies they should.

DD2 (10) doesn't own one and never uses one for schoolwork.

Yes frowned upon I would think. Mental arithmetic and paper and pencil workings need practice and are useful skills to have.

No calculator for DS (11) unless teacher tells them to use it for a particular piece of homework (he had to get a fancy calculator with all the advanced functions on starting secondary, so they do use them sometimes). No calculators at all in primary, ime.

Secondary school yes. DD does maths homework online and it states whether its a calculator test on not. In fact the GCSE is 2 papers - one calc and one non calc test.

My dd is in year 9 and is told whether or not she can use a calculator.

Ds is in year 4 and is not allowed, unless it it specific calculator use homework.

As for seeker.

I use it if I'm checking DDs work and can't be arsed to do long divisions