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Maruyama, Yukiko – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
To investigate the effects that experiences in programming have on parents' concerns about programming education in elementary schools, a survey was carried out before and after parent-children workshops. Participation in the programming workshops seemed to promote parents' understanding of programming, boost their expectations, and decrease their…
Descriptors: Programming, Elementary Education, Workshops, Parent Attitudes
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Buteau, Chantal; Muller, Eric; Marshall, Neil – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
We report on an empirical study grounded in our sustained implementation over ten years of a sequence of three-term undergraduate core mathematics courses centred on microworlds. The survey study investigates students' views on 15 competencies potentially developed as they, individually or in pairs, create 12 Exploratory Objects, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Competence
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