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Said Hadjerrouit – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2024
This article aims to problematize the role of programming in mathematics education. Problematizing involves acknowledging a deeper complexity in the understanding of programming than originally perceived and questioning its assumed value in mathematics education. This approach entails identifying its underlying paradigmatic assumptions in relation…
Descriptors: Computation, Programming, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Education
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Yan, Hongxin; Law, Sandra – Open Praxis, 2013
Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five stand-alone pre-calculus learning modules. The design and revision phases of this project occurred between the fall of 2007 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Open Source Technology, Learning Modules
Connell, Michael L. – 1995
This paper presents two examples in which technology, in this case a fairly sophisticated authoring system--ToolBook, was used as a tool to construct student understandings in mathematics. In doing so, students were able: (1) to successfully identify the variables (unknowns) and the information given (data) in the problem; and (2) to create…
Descriptors: Algebra, Authoring Aids (Programming), Concept Formation, Educational Technology