The purposes of this Topic Group were:
- To inform, develop and support reflection and discussion concerning the roles that calculators have played and can play in the teaching and learning of Secondary Mathematics.
- To show both why and how teachers would want their students to use hand-held computer technology.
- To present the "state of the art" on calculators and hand-held computers and their role in Mathematics Education.
The Topic Group met during two sessions of one hour and a half each. Each of the two sessions were divided into three activities:
There were two plenary presentations (20 minutes each) in each session. These were given by invited speakers who presented their views on the relationship between graphing calculators and objectives of Mathematics education, content, learning and teaching issues.
Specific projects and experiences were presented in short talks of 5 minutes each.
The last 20 minutes of each session were used for discussion and questions.
The meeting attracted many people and was quite varied in the issues discussed. This book presents the extended versions of the papers presented during the meetings.
The meetings were coordinated by Pedro Gómez and Bert Waits. Juan Manuel García and Nestor Aguilera helped with the local organization. We want to thank Patrick (Rick) Scott who translated from Spanish two of the papers.
- Pedro Gómez
Bert Waits
Editors
There is a PDF file
available for this paper.
Gómez, P. & Waits, B. (Eds.) (1996). Roles of
calculators in the classroom.
Mail comments to Pedro Gómez:
pgomez@uniandes.edu.co