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Agree with technology being over-used for the sake of it. A visualisation/exploration of some math concept in Desmos can be invaluable, infinitely better than fiddling with diagrams on paper. Solving a calculus exercise on an ipad instead of paper adds exactly zero value. A smart teacher will know to use the first but not the second.

I will just say whiteboard > blackboard. I get allergies just thinking about it x)

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I strongly agree with your basic idea but I am currently studying maths part-time and for me personally, I love using an iPad for writing maths because of cut/paste and the ability to drag things around to make space on the page. It really helps me to do things in a way that’s clear. When I do things with pencil and paper I spend a huge amount of time erasing things, crossing out, adding little caret and then squeezing little extra bits that I forgot earlier between two lines “…and f is continuous on [-1,1]…” etc.

I used to hate writing on the ipad but the thing that was transformational for me was a “paperlike”[1] screen protector, which makes the surface feel a lot nicer to write on.

[1] https://paperlike.com/

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