‘Maths teachers had to adapt, not least to teach students the long-standing rule “garbage in, garbage out”.’ Jim Endersby recalls how maths teachers responded to the arrival of cheap pocket calculators in the 1970s and likens it to current fears of AI use by university students I agree with Prof Andrew Moran and Dr Ben Wilkinson ( Letters, 2 March ) that cheap and easy‑to‑use AI tools create problems for universities, but the reactions of many academics to these new developments remind me of the way some people responded to the arrival of cheap pocket calculators in the 1970s. Reports of the imminent death of maths teaching in schools proved exaggerated. Maths teachers had to adapt, not least to teach students the longstanding rule “garbage in, garbage out”; if […]
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