> Other than being one step away from total technological reliance I rely on technology to cook my food for me. Personally, I think that should be a little mor

> Other than being one step away from total technological reliance I rely on technology to cook my food for me. Personally, I think that should be a little more alarming than relying on a calculator. My point being: embrace technology, don't fear it. > these kinds of exercises are way of teaching the relationships between numbers, which is INCREDIBLY important. One could learn about relationships between numbers without knowing long division. Honestly, the only time I do non-trivial division by hand is when I'm doing napkin math to entertain myself. If I didn't know how, I'd just rely on my phone. It's fairly unlikely that I'm going to be in a situation where I need to do long division and don't have access to a computer/phone/calculator. Now, I'm not sure that I agree with not teaching long division but, at the same time, I'm not convinced that it's terrifically important.