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Summary
Summary
Digital technologies have the potential to enhance primary children's mathematical learning. Calculators and computers can be used as tools in mathematics to perform routine processes or to explore mathematical ideas. Graphic and programmable calculators, and computers with open-ended software can also immerse children in exciting, creative and productive learning environments. The internet allows children to venture into the enormous world of mathematics beyond the classroom.
Author Notes
Jenni Way has a background in primary school teaching in Australia. She spent two and a half years with Cambridge University School of Education developing the NRICH primary website, and has now returned to her mathematics education lecturing position at the University of Western Sydney
Toni Beardon is the founding Director of the NRICH online maths club project, following a successful career in secondary mathematics teaching and teacher education with Cambridge University
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | p. vii |
| Series editor's preface | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| 1 Digital technologies + mathematics education = powerful learning environments | p. 1 |
| 2 It's not calculators but how they're used ... | p. 7 |
| 3 Spreadsheets with everything | p. 29 |
| 4 Learning technologies, learning styles and learning mathematics | p. 53 |
| 5 Teaching the computer | p. 71 |
| 6 Expanding horizons: the potential of the Internet to enhance learning | p. 91 |
| 7 Classroom technologies as tools not toys: a teacher's perspective on making it work in the classroom | p. 122 |
| 8 ICT as a tool for learning--where are we going? | p. 153 |
| Index | p. 163 |
