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Santos-Trigo, Manuel – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2002
Documents the experiences of 25 first-year university students with regard to the kinds of tasks calculus instructors should design in order to engage students in mathematical practices that often require the use of a graphing calculator. (MM)
Descriptors: Calculus, Curriculum Development, Graphing Calculators, Higher Education
Hopkins, Laurie; Kinard, Amelia – 1998
This study explores a program designed to revolutionize developmental mathematics at the college level using the new handheld computer algebra systems and new information about the ways in which students learn mathematics. Students in one class of developmental algebra worked with the new approach to learn algebra by building on their intuitive…
Descriptors: Algebra, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Graphing Calculators
Galbraith, Peter – 2002
The paper commences by reviewing some of the issues currently being raised with respect to the use of technology in undergraduate mathematics teaching and learning. Selected material from three research projects is used to address a series of questions. The questions relate to the use of symbolic manipulators in tertiary mathematics, to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
Cockburn, Anne D., Ed.; Nardi, Elena, Ed. – 2002
This document contains the first volume of the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Learning from Learners". In total, 290 presentations were given ranging from the psychology of mathematics in the very…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Ethnomathematics