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Author Calder, Nigel, 1957-

Title Processing mathematics through digital technologies : the primary years / Nigel Calder
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 141 pages) : illustrations
Contents Processing Mathematics Through Digital Technologies -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: AN EVOLVING UNDERSTANDING -- INTRODUCTION -- “LETS JUST GO ON FOREVER!� -- LEARNING THEORIES IN MATHEMATICS -- Broader Views of Reality -- Some Formative Theoretical Influences -- Perspectives on Learning in Mathematics Education -- Hermeneutics as a Window to the Learning Process -- CHAPTER 2: WAYS OF KNOWING -- PRODUCTIVE FILTERS -- A Socio-Cultural Perspective -- The Instrumental Approach -- Humans-with-media -- MODERATE HERMENEUTICS
What Is Moderate Hermeneutics?The Hermeneutic Circle -- Illustration of the Hermeneutic Circle -- CHAPTER 3: AFFORDANCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES -- AFFORDANCES -- AFFORDANCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: POTENTIALITIES FOR ACTION -- CHAPTER 4: EARLY SPARKS: USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN JUNIOR PRIMARY CLASSROOMS -- WHAT MIGHT THE MATHEMATICS LEARNING LOOK LIKE? -- NUMBER AND ALGEBRA -- MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY -- Different Perspectives -- GoogleMaps -- Symmetrical Mask -- Tessellation -- Challenge-Based Problems -- Pet Project -- Digital Learning Objects
CHAPTER 5: MAINTAINING COMBUSTION: USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN SENIOR PRIMARY CLASSROOMSWHAT MIGHT THE MATHEMATICS LEARNING LOOK LIKE? -- Shopping for Christmas -- Nippy Numbers -- Trouble in Twilight -- Vampires: -- Zombies: -- Werewolves: -- Function Machine -- Dream Holiday -- Digital Learning Objects -- GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT -- Circle Thinking -- GoogleMaps -- WebQuests -- Tesselations -- Conclusion -- Holiday Time -- CHAPTER 6: AN INFLUENCE ON THE LEARNING PROCESS: SUB-GOALS AND LEARNING TRAJECTORIES -- INTRODUCTION
LEARNING TRAJECTORIESEVOLVING LEARNING TRAJECTORIES THROUGH THE GENERATION OF SUB-GOALS -- SUB-GOALS EMERGING FROM TRANSFORMING PERSPECTIVES -- NEGOTIATING SHARED MEANINGS -- GENERALISING THROUGH A HERMENEUTIC PROCESS -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 7: AN INFLUENCE ON INVESTIGATION: RISK TAKING -- RISK TAKING -- CHAPTER 8: AN INFLUENCE ON ENGAGEMENT: VISUAL PERTURBANCES -- INTRODUCTION -- Discussion -- Influencing the Learning Trajectory -- Unexpected Versions of Mathematics -- Reconciling Technical Aspects and Alternative Forms
Influencing the Posing of Informal ConjecturesReshaping Generalisations -- CHAPTER 9: POSSIBLE FUTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLASSROOMS -- HOW THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE DIFFERS -- The Particular Ways Actual Learning Trajectories Might Evolve -- Implications -- EVOLVING SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- Group Work -- A Learning Community Beyond the Classroom -- Inquiry Learning Approaches -- Mathematics Education Research -- CHAPTER 10: WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT REVEAL -- INTRODUCTION -- A Single Hand-Held Device -- 3-Dimensional Images -- Web-Based Processes and Data Storage
Summary Digital technologies permeate our lives. We use them to communicate, research, process, record, and for entertainment. They influence the way we interact in the world, the way we live. Digital technologies also offer the potential to transform the nature of the learning process in mathematics. The learning environment, the types of tasks learners can engage with, and the nature of that engagement differs from working in other environments. The Internet, for instance, presents greater scope for child-centered, inquiry-based learning. Dynamic geometry software and GoogleEarth offer interactive ways of exploring shape, position and space that is not possible with the pencil-and-paper medium. This book provides insights into how mathematical understanding emerged for primary-aged children (5-13 years) when they investigated mathematical tasks through digital media. It considers learning theories that are frequently used in mathematics education, and situates a contemporary interpretive approach within those perspectives. A key purpose was to provide some practical tasks for teachers/teacher educators to incorporate digital technologies into their mathematics programmes, tasks that have been used successfully for learning. This is a significant reference book for primary-school teacher education and a valuable resource for all schools teaching at that age
Analysis Education
Educational Technology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mathematics -- Computer-assisted instruction
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Data processing
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Sciences sociales.
Droit.
Sciences humaines.
Mathematics -- Computer-assisted instruction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789460916274
9460916279