I found some really neat calculator activities:
http://www.numeracysoftware.com/Ten%20Calculator%20Activities.pdf
This is actually a PDF file with several activities. The first few pages are the answers...scroll through those to get to the activities.
All of these are activities I could use for remediation. There is one that requires converting between fractions and decimals - something my students have a very hard time with. There are volume activities, "missing key" activities, and many more. Just some fun stuff to do with kids on a slow day or when they're done with their other work and need something to fill the time. And they always love using calculators (it's a treat to them, because I don't normally allow them.)
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I can recall the first time that I had to proctor achievement tests and the day that the calculators were handed-out, 30 little sets of hands began feverishly clicking away! The sound was like hundreds of woodpeckers! They really do love to use them. I am curious though about how you feel toward heavy reliance on them? You mention converting fractions to decimals, a very mundane task with a calculator. Yet the true understanding of the process must come from learning to work these problems out by hand IMO.
Obviously, converting a fraction like 3/94875 is best done with a calculator, but I think back to middle school days (where I was teaching at the time and some of the initiatives we were facing) and one of my master's classes where the instructor told us that the new wave in education was to minimize time spent on foundational tasks that were so simply done via tachnology. In essence, he was saying the process was not as important as the product, to which I strongly disagree, especially during the formative educational years.
I don't mean to stray off course and this is not an attempt to "hijack" your post, but I find it quite provokative from this standpoint. By the way, I do think the site contains a lot of beneficial activities!
One last thing, when you mentioned "changing the resolution" in your comment to my video capture post, how is this accomplished?
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