Possible death of calculators in education?

[pier4r]

(05-17-2017 08:22 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  <rant> Due to human inertia, most (all?)...cut, see original message.

This is a great rant. I mean if someone would design the interface (the hp prime is somewhat flexible) without following the physical thing, that does not work with a touchscreen, then one may have more success.

For example one could have the last 10 most frequently used buttons really big, aside from the number pad. all the others could be seen in a different menu.

Or even better, customized keyboards where one wipes the buttons needed the most and keep the others in a second page. Imagine that a touchscreen calculator could have an interface like the actual apps are shown on the system. So one could group in folders the buttons for this or that function and add more buttons and so on.

That would be pretty neat because one could leave immediately accessible the most used buttons, with wished size, then the others would be shown once one expand a "button folder" that may contain other button folders.

That, that would be a neat interface even without tacticle experience, and that may be my killer app to choose instead of the real thingy.

But maybe in some 20 years someone will do it.