Calculator Culprit

I've been on mid shifts this week so the boys have had to complete tasks by themselves while I've slept. One of those things on their list is math worksheets and math times tables. The little stinkers got my calculator out to finish their sheets. Some might say ingenius - I call it like it is - cheating. Read the wrongs about cheating to the boys and they were dully ashamed and sorry. They really don't like disappointing us. Now mind you my boys are going into 4th grade and they don't know all of the times tables yet. John has most of them down but struggles with eights and nines and Jarrod struggles with all of them. So a calculator is a wrong answer and I of course explain why. Just wanted to record that lovely memory - right. The bad with the good...