Is Everyday Math to Hard or We Cannot do the Work Without a Calculator?

            Now a day with everyone having smart phones it has gotten too easy for us to just take out the phone and do simple math problems on the phone. This does not help when someone is given a simple problem and is told to do it in their head. It automatically becomes I do not know how to do this it is too hard for me. There have been times that I have done this and it makes me sad because I was able to do the math in my head and I no longer can because I let myself become lazy and just took out my phone to do the work. I have gotten better lately though when it came to doing math in my head because of the math class that I am in.

            In one of my jobs all of us could not count back money we have to use the register to tell us what the change is going to be. This is sad because as I stated before we are too involved with all of the technology to do any math on our own and need to have technology tell us the answer to everything. I have gotten better with trying to count money back but I always feel that I am not right and end up using a calculator to check myself that I am right. Constantly using calculators does not help us to know that we actually know that we know how to do the problems.

            Even as helpful as scientific calculators are they also pay a role. With these calculators able to make graphs and have the x,y plots, students would not have to do the work for it. It is very easy for students to not do any work and have it all done for then. It is very easy for the students to do the work but it will not be done. With the calculator showing the graph it could be copied over. Even the graph can be made very easily done as well. So the question here is do smart phones make us smart, or not?