Calculate While You Google

While I was assisting a classroom today with a video conference with NASA, I decided to Google the term "golden ratio" (which was a topic that was brought up for the students) on my iPad. My search returned this pretty cool interactive calculator right in my search results.

This feature was introduced in July 2012 after Google launched their weather OneBox.

It's not a fully equipped scientific calculator, but can do most general Maths with a few advanced Math functions like SIN, COS, and TAN.

Yes, typically, calculators are pretty accessible in the classroom, however if you or your students are doing some online research, what a great tool to have by simply opening a new tab in your browser and calculate some general Math, like conversions, distance or amounts of time. By the way, Google also has a unit conversion OneBox.

Try it out. Google an expression OR search "calculator".