Pity the poor teachers that were told in four years ago that calculators were used too much. Now inspectors are saying that Calculators 'not used enough' in lessons. The confusion surrounding this is further compounded by the following quote from the article:

"... the calculator's main role in mathematics lessons is not as a calculating tool, since children are still developing the mental calculation skills and written methods that they will need throughout their lives."

Ofsted said a mental method of calculation should always be pupils' first strategy and they needed to learn that a calculator did not replace this.