There are many available technologies that can assist future teachers to deliver instruction. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of literature identifying available technology tools in mathematics education and which technologies are selected by PSTs to design mathematics lesson activities. The most commonly used and available…

Across three papers I study how differences in the quality and quantity of classroom instruction contribute to differences in what students learn in school. The first two papers focus on teachers--specifically what gives rise to differences between teachers in student learning. The third paper focuses on the quantity of instruction time students…

This monograph offers an overview of the current research work carried out in Croatia and the surrounding countries, and specifically an interesting insight in teaching and learning issues in these countries. The authors discuss the need of the general population for becoming good problem-solvers in society of today, which is characterised by…

Investigates the conditions and constraints of the integration of the dynamic geometry software Cabri into the teaching of geometry in primary school classes (10-year-old pupils). Focuses on the way the dialectic between old and new is working during this integration, looking at the types of tasks and techniques proposed in class by teachers.…

Discusses children's use of spreadsheets and the access that this gives to the instantaneous production of a variety of graphs. (10 references) (MKR)

Describes research using a pedagogic strategy developed during an exploratory work called Active Graphing in which access to spreadsheets allows graphs to be used as analytic tools within practical experiments. Identifies aspects of student interaction with the experiment itself, the data collected and the graphs, and traces the emergence of…

Presents two experiments with a multi-representational environment in which the difficulty of translating between representations was manipulated. Describes how pairs of pictorial, mathematical, or mixed pictorial and mathematical representations were used to teach children in one of three experimental aspects of computational estimation. Finds…

Presents some activities for elementary school mathematics classes using a Cabri computer program. (KHR)

Points out that the notion of "concrete" is relative and argues the advantages of, and recommendations for, using computer manipulatives. (MKR)

Discusses a method that uses spreadsheets to calculate the exact distribution of the sum of two or more discrete random variables with arbitrary distributions. Demonstrates how this method can be used to investigate several problems that would be found interesting at the elementary level. (Author/ASK)

Investigates the development of shape concepts within an instructional unit on geometric paths, including the role of noncomputer and computer interactions in that development. Concludes that the computer environment and the activities facilitated students' development of their conceptualizations of the properties of geometric shapes and their…

Studies two children working in the context of specially developed computer microworlds with a teacher/researcher for approximately 45 minutes a week for 50 weeks over a two-year period. Indicates that the operations and unit types associated with the children's whole-number sequences did not interfere with the reorganization of their fractional…

Outlines the approach of a study that aimed to observe young children as they constructed meanings for randomness in computer-based setting. Provides a snapshot of two children working with the tools made available in that setting. Uses this picture to begin the formulation of a theoretical framework for the construction of meaning in one…

Presents an activity that capitalizes on the particular advantages of physical and computer pattern blocks. (KHR)

Explores ways to help children make connections between whole-number multiplication and their notion of a fraction. Illustrates an approach to constructing fraction concepts that builds on children's whole-number knowledge using specially designed computer tools. (KHR)