Editorial comment: As we read
James E. Inskeep · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1969
Fascinating to some and frightening to others, the computer has emerged from its infancy to become a gangling adolescent with a voracious appetite for new challenges! And yet, the computer offers wonderful possibilities to free men from routine and release them to genuinely creative behavior. For years a primary objective of elementary school mathematics instruction was to make “computers” of persons. The application of the computer should now permit us to make “persons” out of persons in our curriculum. This month's issue of The Arithmetic Teacher features articles dealing with the computer, its use in mathematics education, and its significance for the classroom.