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Dictation A Difficult Calculation A study shows that a group of second year high school students last spring / had the same scores on the same maths test that first year students had six years ago./ In the opinion of the researchers / the main factor influencing this decline is/ the pupil’s inability to do mental arithmetic / as a result of the emphasis on calculators./ But the government gave its blessing to the use of calculators in schools / in a report published five years ago./ The report suggested that “properly used in the classroom,/ calculators can help and encourage children to impro