I think they will be the case. When I was a kid my high school math class was very calculator driven. I have a lot to say about that, but won’t bore you with it

I think they will be the case. When I was a kid my high school math class was very calculator driven. I have a lot to say about that, but won’t bore you with it. I would often see adults pull out a pencil and paper and do a whole bunch of math very quickly, or do a lot of math quickly in their head. I couldn’t do this as well as them, and my math classes weren’t doing anything to move me in that direction. When the calculators were taken away, most of the kids were useless. I saw a guy in National Math Honor Society put 1-1 in his calculator, unironically. This was almost 25 years ago. I assume it’s only gotten worse, and will continue to get worse as more tools that provide answers are given to the students. I think new tools are great, but it seems to me that the people who can utilize them the best are the ones who learned without them. Those are the people who understand the concepts behind them, so they can ask the right questions, with the right terminology, and they can recognize if an answer makes sense. When learning is done with these tools, even just calculators, little is being learned. Memorize the button sequence to press leading up to the test. Once the test is over, forget the sequence… and even if the buttons are relented, it won’t matter, because while we all walk around with a calculator in our pockets now, it’s not a TI-83 (or whatever people use now), so without the conceptual knowledge, what good is the button sequence. That doesn’t even prepare a person to leverage ChatGPT well.