Things I used a calculator for in high school that were great times to use a calculator: -solving systems of equations for physics -doing anything in AP stati

Things I used a calculator for in high school that were great times to use a calculator: -solving systems of equations for physics -doing anything in AP statistics -plotting functions in calculus so that I could visualize them Now that I'm in college I either use Mathematica or Python's scientific stack for all of these things, but I didn't own a laptop during high school and can definitely understand why high schools would buy graphing calculators for their classes. They have a relatively high educational utility for their cost. On the other hand, I agree that curriculum's shouldn't be catered around calculators. A good high school math curriculum would let people know what can be done numerically, what can't, and spend a small amount of time teaching people how to do the numerical things on their calculators (or whatever the tool of choice is).