Maybe not pointless, but I am thankful I took my math classes when we still had to memorize the shape of the important functions and what happened when you did

Maybe not pointless, but I am thankful I took my math classes when we still had to memorize the shape of the important functions and what happened when you did a + f(x-b) to f(x). Well, I guess I think they are pointless, but I would be that teacher that doesn't let anyone use calculators at all, at least until 9th grade. Graphs are very useful in analyzing data, but then you want a real software package. But for learning math, honestly I think you get more by exercising doing lots of problems, memorizing the key facts (yes, memorizing), and drawing your own damn graphs (get off my lawn you kids!).