This post seems to contradict what you said above: > It seems like more and more, math classes are teaching students how to use a graphing calculator to avoid

This post seems to contradict what you said above: > It seems like more and more, math classes are teaching students how to use a graphing calculator to avoid solving problems. This is, simply, wrong: Calculators are banned for as long as students are learning to calculate. Once they are actually solving problems, as opposed to grinding through numbers (which isn't something they need to be doing anyway), they're thinking in ways calculators cannot match. A calculator can only do the most mechanical, least problem-solving-like parts of solving a problem.