Calculator

Alright, maybe some of you know this, but I did not figure this out (yes I do not know everything) until a couple weeks ago about the full capability of the Calculator tool.  

If you do not have the calculator in your dock then you can add it (and any other readily used Applications) to your dock by clicking on:

Go

then Applications

then dragging the Calculator icon into your dock.  

The dock is just a shortcut bar and if you have unused application shortcut in the dock just click and drag them onto the desktop and they will literally poof away.  The original application will still be in the application menu if you want to use it again or add it back to the dock later.

Okay back to the full capability of the Calculator tool.  

When you click on the calculator icon it just comes up as a basic calculator to easily use.  

But if you click on the green plus button you can rotate between a basic calculator, a scientific calculator and a programmer calculator.

Also by opening the Calculator tool you can like a the menu bar at the top of the screen and:

*do conversions for pressure, speed and temperature to name a few

*turn the speech on so when you click a button it will say its number and/or function and

*show paper tape, which actual shows you the calculation path as if you were writing it down on paper

A lot of cool functions of what seems to look like a basic, easy to use calculator.

Try it out with your students.