Prior to iOS 18, if you wanted to figure out how to split a bill with your texting group from afar, you'd have to use your ...

But iOS 18 upgrades your Messages app so that it can solve tricky equations without your Calculator app, and it doesn't need Google to look up conversion rates, either.

Every so often its good to exercise your brain with a math problem or two that forces you to recall principles you learned decades prior. Can you solve 5+5x5+5 without a hitch?

Thanks to a few new science standards that involve math, Ms. Bluebird realized that her students can't compute without a calculator.

Quickly, off the top of your head — what's seven times nine? If you can't answer without a calculator, you might fail part of the new Grade six provincial achievement test.

That was 1992, and the math teaching community has struggled ever since, productively most of the time, to integrate calculators of increasing complexity and ability into all levels of instruction.

Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator Technology is doing to math education what industrial agriculture did to food: making it efficient, monotonous, and low-quality.