Addressing the future, cryptocurrency such as bitcoin should be taught in schools. This is why I did innovate a basic strategy as my research to used base numbers in cryptographic algorithm.
However, the computer is there to compute the numbers. But still, learners should be able to know the manual computation and how it increase and decrease according to its equivalent value.
In addition, this will make the new evolution of numbers of Mathematics.
There was a thorough discussion about this before, and It was even discussed whether it would be taught in highschool, college course, or just a subject related to economics and computer science and studies.
Here's some of the few topics before.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5026312.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5198165.0 The idea of the introduction of cryptocurrency to schools is to primarily increase the adoption and awareness of other forms of the future of currency and payment methods.
This is a very good idea, and I support it 100%.