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The Effect of Using Technology on Students' Understanding in Calculus and College Algebra
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Shahriari, Razieh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This mixed qualitative and quantitative methods study addressed the effect of technology on college algebra and survey of calculus students' understanding. This research study was conducted in fall 2016 on eight college algebra classes with a total of 315 students, and in summer 2017, on two survey of calculus classes with a total of 40 students…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Algebra, College Mathematics
Investigating a Link between Pre-Calculus Students' Uses of Graphing Calculators and Their Understanding of Mathematical Symbols
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Kenney, Rachael H. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2014
This study examined ways in which students make use of a graphing calculator and how use relates to comfort and understanding with mathematical symbols. Analysis involved examining students' words and actions in problem solving to identify evidence of algebraic insight. Findings suggest that some symbols and symbolic structures had strong…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Graphing Calculators, Symbols (Mathematics)
Digital Technology in Mathematics Education: Why It Works (Or Doesn't)
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Drijvers, Paul – PNA, 2013
The integration of digital technology confronts teachers, educators and researchers with many questions. What is the potential of ICT for learning and teaching, and which factors are decisive in making it work in the mathematics classroom? To investigate these questions, six cases from leading studies in the field are described, and decisive…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Struggles and Successes Implementing Classroom Communication Technology in a College Pre-Calculus Course
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Case, Erin; Pape, Stephen – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2013
This case study documents the struggles and successes encountered by a pre-calculus teacher while using Classroom Connectivity Technology (CCT) daily in her community college mathematics course. CCT refers to a wireless communication system that connects a teacher's computer with an individual student's handheld calculator and has been associated…
Descriptors: Graphing Calculators, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Audience Response Systems
Graphic Calculators and Micro-Straightness: Analysis of a Didactic Engineering
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Maschietto, Michela – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2008
This paper concerns the analysis of a didactic engineering, the aim of which is to introduce Calculus, at secondary-school level, through the relationship between global and local points of view. It was designed for a graphic-symbolic calculator environment and structured in accordance with a learning trajectory from identifying the graphical…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Engineering, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction
The Impact of the Graphical Approach on Students' Understanding of the Formal Definition of Limit
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Quesada, Antonio; Einsporn, Richard L.; Wiggins, Muserref – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of a graphical teaching and learning approach via the graphing calculator enhances students' understanding of the formal definition of limit. College students in six sections of Calculus I participated by completing a test prior to the introduction of the definition, and completing a second…
Descriptors: Graphing Calculators, Calculus, Conventional Instruction, College Students