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La Parabole du Gaucher et de la Casserole a Bec Verseur: Etude des Processus d'Apprentissage dans un Environnement de Calculatrices Symboliques.
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Trouche, Luc – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2000
Discusses the problems of conceptualization of the function limit in technological environments (principally graphing calculators today and symbolic calculators tomorrow) that are gradually being adopted in precalculus teaching. Explains how the instrumentation process and the conceptualization process are dependent on each other. Sets forth a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Graphing Calculators, Secondary Education
Building a Versatile Understanding of Algebraic Variables with a Graphic Calculator.
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Graham, Alan T.; Thomas, Michael O. J. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2000
Presents a study using a module of work based on a graphing calculator that provided an environment where students could experience some aspects of variables and begin to build an understanding of them. Graphing calculators proved to be an instrument for achieving significant improvement in student understanding, which had often proved difficult…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Graphing Calculators, Mathematics Instruction
A Multiple-Perspective Analysis of Learning in the Presence of Technology.
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Forster, Patricia A.; Taylor, Peter C. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2000
Presents an inquiry into students' conceptual development of a graphics calculator function for direction. Discusses reflective thinking and reflective enculturation, operational and structural understanding, and situated abstraction. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education