&gt; negatively impact basic arithmetic skills<p>Yep and that skill was rendered completely obsolete. Always remember being told &quot;you won&#x27;t always have a calculator with you!!&quot; because I couldn&#x27;t be bothered showing my working on my maths work.<p>How did that work out... oh everyone now always has calculators with them. Glad I didn&#x27;t waste my time memorising multiplication tables.