Journal article
Integrating technologies into mathematics: Comparing the cases of square roots and integrals
Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, Vol.30(1), pp.4-17
2016
Abstract
Although the term is often used to denote electronic devices, the idea of a 'technology', with its origins in the Greek techne (art or skill), refers in its most general sense to a way of doing things. The development and availability of various technologies for computation over the past forty years or so have influenced what we regard as important in mathematics, and what we teach to students, given the inevitable time pressures on our curriculum. In this note, we compare and contrast current approaches to two important mathematical ideas, those of square roots and of integrals, and how these have changed (or not) over time.
Details
- Title
- Integrating technologies into mathematics: Comparing the cases of square roots and integrals
- Authors/Creators
- B. Kissane (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, Vol.30(1), pp.4-17
- Publisher
- Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers
- Identifiers
- 991005545311607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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