Students acquire knowledge and skills through different modes of instruction that include classroom lectures with textbooks, computers, and the like. The availability and choice of learning innovation depends on the individual's access to technologies and on the infrastructure environment of the surrounding community. In this rapidly changing…

Presents three lessons in which Cabri geometry is used. Discusses the pedagogy of those lessons along with objectives and resources. (KHR)

Provides ways of using geostrips to make different kinds of quadrilaterals. Employs combinations of four different length geostrips and works on classifying all of the quadrilaterals using different combinations of the strips. Discusses impressions for the classroom and presents some examples of class activities using geostrips and dynamic…

Activities designed to help mathematics teachers integrate information technology into lessons. Activities are based on using the software package !Draw. (MKR)

The advent of powerful, affordable output devices offers the potential for a vastly expanded landscape of computationally-enriched mathematical craft activities in education. Craft activities have both intellectual and emotional affordances that are relatively lacking in "traditional" computer-based education. Describes three software applications…

Shows how the joint use of a dynamic geometry program and a spreadsheet can provide a computational environment for exploring geometry on plane lattices that lessens the risk of developing the false empiricist view of mathematics often associated with the use of information technology. Contains 17 references. (Author/ASK)

There are several possible approaches in which dynamic computerized environments play a significant and possibly unique role in supporting innovative learning trajectories in mathematics in general and geometry in particular. Describes an approach based on a problem situation and some experiences using it with students and teachers. (Contains 15…

The mathematical curriculum of the next millennium should harness children's motivation without losing their mathematics. Envisages that the computer might offer just the context to help do this. Presents snapshots from two case studies. (Contains 18 references.) (ASK)

Discusses the issue of proof in school geometry and views dynamic software as an excellent tool for exploration in geometry classes, mathematical practice, and for helping students see that a theorem is true. Argues that justification without proof would be untrue to the theory and practice of mathematics. Contains 32 references. (ASK)

Purpose: The purpose of this scientific monograph is to show new and creative approaches to different school subjects in primary and secondary level. Methodology: Interdisciplinary and international comparative approaches were used. Now according to the 7th Framework Program, the preferred form of Science Education (www.scientix.eu) is preferred…

Reviews the evolution of the educational computer software "Geometer's Sketchpad" and its history. The features of the software invite exploration and play and enable users to sense their own role in shaping and crafting their understanding of mathematics. (ASK)

Describes PC Logo, an instructional tool that can be used for teaching and enhancing a student's knowledge of graphs and geometric concepts. (CCM)

Explores ways in which Information Communication Technology (ICT) can be used within the classroom environment to enhance pupils' learning and understanding of mathematics. Describes how to incorporate ICT into lessons investigating mathematical proof. (KHR)

Presents some activities for both art and mathematics classrooms. Traces the history of geometric art and focuses on a way of drawing tiling using LOGO programming. Describes some of the work on tessellations by the mathematician Roger Penrose and the artist M.C. Escher. Provides websites for further information. (KHR)

This yearbook focuses on the role of technology in school mathematics. Chapters are replete with classroom-tested ideas for using technology to teach new mathematical ideas and to teach familiar mathematical ideas better. Chapters included: (1) "Using the Graphing Calculator in the Classroom: Helping Students Solve the "Unsolvable" (Eric Milou,…