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Children Taking the Lead.

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Powell, Beth – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 1996

Tells stories of children in their first year of school (mostly age five) who were using calculators for the first time. Implications are that children's thinking moves from a rough to a more thorough and refined grasp of the whole. Learning mathematics with calculators is more like the learning of language than traditional classroom mathematics.…

Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculators, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Processes

Bridging the Gap between School and Real Life: Toward an Integration of Science, Mathematics and Technology in the Context of Authentic Practice.

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Roth, Wolff-Michael – School Science and Mathematics, 1992

Provides a rationale for a learning environment in science classrooms that integrates science, mathematics, and technology while solving authentic problems. Describes activities that can be used in such an environment and presents data regarding students' attitudes toward the described activities. (MDH)

Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Discovery Learning