I find it funny how the math part of the SAT lets you use desmos (not that its a bad thing in any way though)
like, the whole argument of “you won’t always have a calculator on you” has been entirely nil for years now, because 99.9% of the time you need to do anything like that you will have something far more powerful than a calculator on you (your smartphone)
this is not to say that you shouldn’t still learn math just because we constantly have access to highly advanced calculators now. You still need to know how to apply and manipulate all the math, but the calculator can do most of the dirty work.
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“you wont always have a calculator on you” is a argument made by only pre high school teachers and stops being said once you get into advanced algebra-calculus. they have no expectations for students to be able to exactly and accurately graph a polynomial function like f(x)=3.82x³+4x²+2.03 … doing that manually just wastes a lot of time and doesn’t let educators actually teach and test you on the important stuff