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Vale, Pamela; Graven, Mellony – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present severe challenges to the education sector more than 2 years after the first case was detected. We explore the strategies South African teachers used to support continued mathematics learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic across different stages of the response to it and across different contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Hariyanti, Uun; Abdillah, Yan Amal; Chen, Holly S. L. – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
Geometry is essential for mathematics learning given that it is strongly related to our surroundings; however, few studies concentrated on using geometry in our daily life, especially using mobile devices with their sensors. Thus, this study proposed one app, Ubiquitous Geometry (UG), and explored its effects on learning angles and polygons in…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology
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Bryant, Brian R.; Ok, Minwook; Kang, Eun Young; Kim, Min Kyung; Lang, Russell; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Pfannestiel, Kathleen – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2015
Instructional applications (apps) are educational software programs that can be accessed via mobile technologies (e.g., iPad, smartphone) and used to help students acquire various academic skills, including mathematics. Although research suggests that app-based instruction (AI) can be effective, there is a paucity of research comparing AI, to…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Patterson, Lynn Gannon; Young, Ashlee Futrell – SRATE Journal, 2013
This article investigates the value of a math dictionary in the elementary classroom and if elementary students prefer using a traditional math dictionary or a dictionary on an iPad. In each child's journey to reading with understanding, the dictionary can be a comforting and valuable resource. Would students find a math dictionary to be a…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Handheld Devices
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Kaur, Daljit; Koval, Ashely; Chaney, Hannah – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
This qualitative study was conducted to identify the potential of using iPad as a supplement to teach math to students with learning disabilities. Ten teacher candidates from a university in the south provided one-on-one math tutoring services to ten students in a self-contained classroom at a local high poverty elementary school. The students…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Assistive Technology, Supplementary Reading Materials
Larsen, Sally Greenwood – Creative Computing, 1979
Examples are given of the way computers are introduced to gifted students in Racine, Wisconsin Elementary Schools. (MK)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Stake, Bernadine Evans – 1977
Work with PLATO, a computer-based teaching system which provides a means for individualizing instruction, is described. Children sit at terminals and respond to directives and questions on the screen by touching it or by typing a message. PLATO responds, and prescribes work in accordance with the child's previous performance. Curricular materials…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary School Mathematics
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education