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Calculator for the challenged by numbers or age.
I hate math. I can do it if I have to and if motivated. Mostly I need the basics and a general calculator to add, subtract, divide, and multiply.
Most calculators today do everything but paint your nails. Good grief. I do not need or want major functions when I need to tally grades or balance my checkbook.
In addition, calculators have gotten smaller and smaller while my eyes have gotten worse and worse. My fingers are slim but very long too, so all these mini buttons just drive me nuts. When I need a magnifying glass and a toothpick to work the calculator, then I am not a happy camper.
My sister gave me the LeWorld calculator for Christmas. It is large - bigger than a piece of generous toast. The buttons are likewise roomy. Each button is about the size of a minature marshmallow.
There are the basic buttons plus MC, MR, M-, and M+ and squiggle divide. I do not deal with those extra buttons, but if you need them, they are there.
This calculator has a very clear OFF button at the top left. The ON/C is at the bottom right. You do the old fashioned on and off switches rather than some solar turn on/off or time out. This one may turn off if the OFF button is not pushed. I don't know. I turn it off when I'm done.
The numbers display does lay flat or can be flipped up. I like it up when I'm using it and down when it's stored in the office drawer.
One good thing about this calculator is that it is large and not fancy, and my boys and/or students are not likely to carry it off working on a project. If so, it is big enough to be noticed and returned.
Feel free to call this an old fogey calculator, but if you need a basic calculator and like buttons you can see and a display large enough that you know for sure your totals, then this is the ticket. As a bonus, it is not going to be one that the kids borrow and forget to return. It is not "cool" enough to carry around for the younger crowd, but they use it in a pinch.Then they go looking for the $150 model you bought them for math class that does almost everything under the sun that many of us do not really need to do.