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Integrating Calculators in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom: Teachers' Attitudes and Perspectives
Mason, Andrea – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to analyze secondary mathematics teachers' experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and practices in teaching and learning mathematics using the calculator. The study also focused on the role of the calculator in the mathematics classroom. A high number of students lack simple math skills and many use the calculator at all…
Descriptors: Calculators, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Teachers, Basic Skills
Rivera, Ferdinand D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
This paper provides an instrumental account of precalculus students' graphical process for solving polynomial inequalities. It is carried out in terms of the students' instrumental schemes as mediated by handheld graphing calculators and in cooperation with their classmates in a classroom setting. The ethnographic narrative relays an instrumental…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Graphing Calculators, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction
Shaw, Jean M. – 1990
This book presents activities designed to promote students' understanding of important mathematical ideas as well as to provide learning experiences intended to let students practice and refine their skills. Chapter topics include: (1) understanding and using numbers; (2) computation; (3) problem solving; (4) calculators; (5) fractions and…
Descriptors: Calculators, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Shaw, Jean M. – 1990
This book presents activities promoting children's understanding of mathematical ideas while at the same time providing the practice children need to refine their skills in mathematics. Chapter topics include: (1) numbers; (2) number facts and operations; (3) problem solving; (4) calculators; (5) fractions; (6) graphing; (7) geometry; and (8)…
Descriptors: Calculators, Concept Formation, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Applications
Brannan, Richard; And Others – 1983
Problem Solving in Mathematics (PSM), a program of problem-solving lessons for grades 4-9, is designed to be integrated into the regular mathematics program. Although the content objectives of the lessons are similar to those of most textbooks, PSM emphasizes problem-solving skills and a variety of instructional strategies which foster the…
Descriptors: Calculators, Equations (Mathematics), Geometry, Grade 8
Smith, Catherine DeLong – 1994
This package contains student and teacher handbooks and a report summarizing a project during which the handbooks were developed as part of a numeracy education course for adult basic and literacy education students. Discussed in the project report are the following: development of the course's 7 numeracy education units, field testing of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Calculators
Coast Community Coll. District, Costa Mesa, CA. – 1996
This instructor's manual for workplace trainers contains the materials required to conduct a course in basic workplace mathematics skills. The course consists of six lessons for workers and two lessons for supervisors that discuss the following: concepts taught in the six lessons; workers' progress in the individual lessons; and strategies for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Calculators