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When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class
Brenda Dyck
Summer 2003 Issue

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Article:	When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class Brenda Dyck The math classes from my learning past had a definite cookie cutter appearance - row of desks, small lined scribblers, pencils, textbooks, the teacher at the front - all of this housed within the most predictable of all - a quiet classroom. Math instruction seems to be a subject that is well suited to a traditional teaching format. Due to the logical and sequential nature of this topic, math often attracts teachers whose own thinking and learning style matches the subject. So at a time when other teaching disciplines are branching out to encompass a constructivist style of instruction, full of collaboration and technology integration, many middle and high school math teachers continue to teach their subject using a more teacher-centered approach, much the same way they have for decades. As a math teacher myself, I believe there’s change on the horizon. After watching my Language Arts and Social Studies colleagues embrace the power of the Web to push their students’ creative and critical thinking skills, I am noticing many math teachers looking for ways to enhance their curriculum using digital media. Realizing that digital media has the potential to facilitate critical thinking and higher order learning, many of us are looking for math-related online projects and resources that will help our students express what and how they know it and will challenge their thinking skills. Read the rest at http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/sum2003/math/

 

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Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal
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Volume 8, Issue 1, WInter 2005
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