I used to work part time as IT support for a public school system back in College(07), and it shocked me to see every single student in a 6th grade class pull o

I used to work part time as IT support for a public school system back in College(07), and it shocked me to see every single student in a 6th grade class pull out TI-89s or better! to handle logs and exponentials. I'm not talking about solving them to get the decimal number, no, this was to do things like solve for x in: e^3 * e^4 = e^x Yes in the real world we all rely on calculators to some extent but if you can't piece together basic math you'll struggle to solve unfamiliar problems.