[Maths-Education] Mathematical concepts and ICT

[Clausen-May, Tandi]

Keith -

Keith -

Absolutely.  We don't want to limit ourselves to what teachers do teach
now, as this is indeed influenced by the current prevalence of static,
paper-based assessments.  But assessment could change - and it might be
useful to see what pupils can actually learn using ICT that is different
from what they learn with a more traditional approach.

We will add Fathom and Tinkerplots to our list of programs to think
about.

Yours,  Tandi

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From: Jones D.K. [mailto:D.K.Jones at soton.ac.uk] 
Sent: 14 December 2006 10:38
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This sounds like an interesting project, Tandi (as well as Logo, and
Peter's mention of GeoGebra, and other geometry software, learning
algebraic notation in a spreadsheet environment, and learning
exploratory data handling with something like Fathom or Tinkerplots
comes to mind), actually what I'm thinking about is to what extent
digital resources are affecting what mathematics is taught (in schools).
The example of the angle concept reminds me that, as teachers preparing
pupils for high-stakes examinations, we are always in the position of
balancing between teaching the concept (perhaps using Logo) and enabling
pupils to answer the type of static examination questions which are
currently the norm (maybe this will change as testing becomes online,
though I guess we'll have to see). 

Maybe the question could be how the availability of digital resources
might encourage us to rethink what we take to be the key mathematical
concepts (Seymour Papert's plenary at the ICMI study conference last
week in Hanoi - and good to hear some positive news after his terrible
accident - being about this very issue).

Keith
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Keith Jones
University of Southampton
UK
http://www.crme.soton.ac.uk


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