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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nope, this is a common thought amongst those impressed by AI. And I can relate coz when I was in school, no one would give a good answer to why I needed to do any arithmetics without a calculator.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    As a math teacher, my suggestion to the students is during practice to try to do calculations without a calculator to invoke a bit of number sense so when they use calculators be able to notice in the result if they did a wrong input. It happens to input "14" instead of "41" . I feel like able to do mental arithmetic with double digit numbers can be helpful

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    In hindsight, I do think the right approach is not to use calculators till secondary school (about 14~15 years of age). Having a feel for numbers and how they should behave under addition/multiplication/exponentiation and ability to mentally do two digit calculations as you said is critical, and should be an "automatic" capability

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I think it's reactionary, too. A version of "anything to trigger the libs". If so many people weren't against AI, OOP might have taken a moment to think before they type. As it stands, they reached for the first hot argument to get their opinion out. And I don't mean to absolve them from anything here, just analyzing.

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