Daily assignment: Should We Give Up Using Calcultors in Maths Class?

Topic: Should We Give Up Using Calculators In Maths Class?

Modern technology is causing changes in our lives that have some people worried. Everyone agrees that new inventions have made life easier, however we need to ask ourselves if we are missing something along the way.
When I was still in junior high school, My teacher in Maths class sometimes said: "No more calculators in this classroom". Most of my classmates had been using calculators so that adding or subtracting simple numbers was no more easy. By the way, a research shows that other students coming from China or from Vietnam were quicker and most accurate in solving their maths equations either simple or complex ones without calculators. We learned that the Chinese students had used calculators much less often during their early school years than we had. I was a little nervous because not only using the calculators was faster but also I had to think less. I was not the only one to complain since many of my classmates had the same problems and some even more than I.
Some researchers have similar feeling about technology. Good handwriting can help people because they can read easily what they wrote. Businesses ask their employees , and many doctors have taken that course in the way that they could read them better. The use of computers has made some people lose their ability to write with hand and on the piece of paper . Typing on the computer has become so popular and easier that handwriting lost its value.
Are computers and calculators robbing people of valuable skills? Some people think so. Others say such questions just show that some of us cannot deal with change. So the improvement and the excessive use of calculators and computers tend to make human beings lazier. If we don't train our memory and use less calculators, we will gradually lose all our mental faculties.

Written by David Lateu