Graphing calculators in the teaching and learning of mathematics: a research bibliography
Graphing calculators in the teaching and learning of mathematics: a research bibliography
This review suggests that using graphing calculators in mathematics education can enable students to approach situations graphically, numerically and symbolically, and can support students’ visualisation, allowing them to explore situations which they may not otherwise be able to tackle (and thus perhaps enable them to take their mathematics to a more advanced level). In this way, using graphing calculators can lead to higher achievement among students, perhaps through increased student use of graphical solution strategies, improved understanding of functions, and increased teacher time spent on presentation and explanation of graphs, tables and problem solving activities (compared with students not using such calculators). The impact of the availability of this form of calculator on teaching methods and curricula appears to have been more limited, with teachers reportedly tending to use graphing calculators as an extension of the way they have always taught, rather than provoking any radical change in style of teaching or design of the curriculum.
pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, school, mathematics, national curriculum, graphing, graphic, graphics, calculator, research, review, bibliography, computers, ICT
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Jones, Keith
ea790452-883e-419b-87c1-cffad17f868f
2005
Jones, Keith
ea790452-883e-419b-87c1-cffad17f868f
Jones, Keith
(2005)
Graphing calculators in the teaching and learning of mathematics: a research bibliography.
Micromath, 21 (2), .
Abstract
This review suggests that using graphing calculators in mathematics education can enable students to approach situations graphically, numerically and symbolically, and can support students’ visualisation, allowing them to explore situations which they may not otherwise be able to tackle (and thus perhaps enable them to take their mathematics to a more advanced level). In this way, using graphing calculators can lead to higher achievement among students, perhaps through increased student use of graphical solution strategies, improved understanding of functions, and increased teacher time spent on presentation and explanation of graphs, tables and problem solving activities (compared with students not using such calculators). The impact of the availability of this form of calculator on teaching methods and curricula appears to have been more limited, with teachers reportedly tending to use graphing calculators as an extension of the way they have always taught, rather than provoking any radical change in style of teaching or design of the curriculum.
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Published date: 2005
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pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, school, mathematics, national curriculum, graphing, graphic, graphics, calculator, research, review, bibliography, computers, ICT
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Mathematics, Science & Health Education
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ISSN: 0267-5501
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