[Maths-Education] Re: ICT in mathematics

[Tomalin, Jo]

I am currently working in mathematics teacher education with PGCE and undergraduate students.
We have the same problem with access to ICT suites, which give priority to those working with ICT teachers. 
There are still considerable barriers both in educating students to use ICT appropriately and in allowing them to use it once in schools, which make it difficult to evaluate what the most effective practice could be.

Jo Tomalin
Senior Lecturer
Sheffield Hallam

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From: maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:maths-education-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Gilbey


I fully agree.  Sadly, the current reality is far from that in (at
least some) schools.  I am currently a secondary mathematics teacher,
and my school has recently built a new maths building.  (We are now in
our second year of using it.)  It has two computer rooms and eight
regular classrooms.  Unfortunately, though, the computer rooms are
almost in constant use for teaching this subject called "ICT", which
is a synonym for "Microsoft Office", and so are almost never available
for teaching mathematics.

   (Dr) Julian Gilbey