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Calculators Powered by Smarter Balanced and Desmos are proud to offer calculators that are both free to students and include cutting edge accessibility features. Smarter Balanced calculators now feature: Graphs that are accessible to students who are blind, Colors that have sufficient contrast, and Adjustable font-size settings for students with low vision. Students who are blind can determine the shape of a graph through audio trace. The pitch of the tone increases or decreases depending on the shape of the wave or graph. Additionally, the calculators communicate with screen readers, which voice additional cues to indicate a student’s location within an expression (numerator or denominator, superscript or subscript, baseline, etc.). Try out the calculators: Scientific, Graphing, and Regression Calculator (High School) Scientific Calculator (Grades 7–8) Basic Calculator (Grade 6) Learn More! http://calculator.smarterbalanced.org/

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Calculators Powered by

Smarter Balanced and Desmos are proud to offer calculators that are both free to students

and include cutting edge accessibility features.

Smarter Balanced calculators now feature:

✓ Graphs that are accessible to students who are blind,

✓ Colors that have sufficient contrast, and

✓ Adjustable font-size settings for students with low vision.

Students who are blind can determine the shape of a graph through audio trace. The pitch of the tone increases or decreases depending on the shape of the wave or graph. Additionally, the calculators communicate with screen readers, which voice additional cues to indicate a student’s location within an expression (numerator or denominator, superscript or subscript, baseline, etc.).

Try out the calculators:

Scientific, Graphing, and Regression Calculator

(High School)

Scientific Calculator(Grades 7–8)

Basic Calculator(Grade 6)

Learn More! http://calculator.smarterbalanced.org/