I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI.
It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.
I suck at memorization and am better at figuring things out. The quadratic equation, I memorized and liked it because I could use it, just that one, to figure out the whole year of math, without memorizing anything else.
And yeah everything is slower that way, than memorizing - I have just always been constitutionally unable to do anything I don’t understand. Even now, at work, I don’t settle on a process I can hand off to anyone else until I do the task for like a year, a bunch of different ways.
It’s much better if you derive the quadratic equation. I don’t understand why more algebra 2 teachers don’t show the derivation from completing the square. I always do, and my students get it down quick!