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Ball, Lynda; Stacey, Kaye – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
Students who learn mathematics with CAS calculators are likely to develop new practices for doing and recording mathematics. Students discussed in this paper were able to use CAS calculators in examinations, making their own decisions about what to document as written records for solutions to problems. A comparison of some features of written…
Descriptors: Syntax, Graphing Calculators, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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MacGregor, Mollie; Stacey, Kaye – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1997
Investigates the cognitive and linguistic demands of learning algebra and explores students' understanding of algebraic notation. Findings indicate specific origins of misinterpretation that include intuitive assumptions and pragmatic reasoning about a new notation, analogies with familiar symbol systems, interference from new learning in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Coding, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries