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Aurora have now been making calculators for over 40 years and we
produce in excess of 1.5 million units per month from our ISO9001
and ISO14001 compliant factory.
Aurora products are sold all around the world with over 50,000 being
sold everyday.
Over the last few years we have worked closely with schools
and students to develop new classroom aids to assist with the
teaching of basic calculator skills to primary school children. The
‘Calculators for Schools’ range was conceived, and software to
assist with ‘whole class’ teaching via the interactive white board
was developed.
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In the UK the ‘Calculators
for Schools’ range has been very well received and has proved to be a
useful, effective and extremely cost effective teaching aid.
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Calculators for Schools
The revised ‘Primary Framework for Literacy and Mathematics’
recommends that the teaching of calculator skills should
commence in Years 3 and 4 and continue through to the assessment
at the end of Key Stage 2.
Aurora’s new range of School Class Kits are an ideal aid for
teaching the required calculator skills to primary school
children.
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A class kit consists of 30 calculators designed for KS1 & KS2, a robust
Gratnell’s® storage tray, a lid and a foam insert. The foam insert acts
as a secure holder, keeping the calculators safe and enabling quick and
easy distribution during lesson time.
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In addition the
CK30 and CK12 class kits now include a free emulator. This
CD-ROM software when combined with an interactive whiteboard and
projector will beam a large working replica of the calculator
onto the whiteboard.
This giant working calculator is viewable to the whole class and
it is also identical to the calculators being used by the
students.
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The whiteboard
calculator makes it much easier to demonstrate a calculation and
equally makes it much easier for the students to follow the
keystrokes and calculation chain. The emulators provide a great
solutionfor introducing calculators to Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils.
They are simple to operate and easy
to use and have been designed to integrate into an existing
lesson plan with minimal fuss providing the teacher with a
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Also included on the CD in a printable
format are test and answer sheets naming the functions performed by each
key.
See below for the full Calculators for
Schools range.
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