Comment by pton_xd
1 month ago
> Studies like this remind me of early concerns about calculators making students "worse at math." The reality is that tools change what skills matter, not whether people think.
Over-reliance on calculators does make you worse at math. I (shamefully) skated through Calculus 3 by just typing everything into my TI-89. Now as an adult I have no recollection of anything I did in that class. I don't even remember how to use the TI-89, so it was basically a complete waste of my time. But I still remember the more basic calculus concepts from all the equations I solved by hand in Calc 1 and 2.
I'm not saying "calculators bad" but misusing them in the learning process is a risk.
>But I still remember the more basic calculu
All this is saying that more basic things are easier to remember than more complex things and without further evidence is very very limited in predictive power.