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Peer reviewedCoates, Geoff – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2000
Discusses the mistakes of Kirschner, the German philosopher and mathematician, in calculating factorials of large numbers by hand in the 1600s. Uses computer technology to calculate those numbers now. (ASK)
Descriptors: Computation, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics History
Download full textSuydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1983
An editorial comment on the computer and the mathematics educator is included first. Then, abstracts and comments are presented for 11 articles. Studies included focus on mental addition, problem solving by sixth graders, mathematics anxiety, tutoring, direct instruction, a bilingual program, thinking strategies for multiplication basic facts,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computers
PDF pending restorationQuigley, Martyn, Ed. – 1992
The proceedings report is divided into four sections that include: (1) two invited lectures by Colette Laborde and James Kaput on the topics of students' reading and writing of mathematics and an allegory in which writing is introduced into a technology-based mathematical society; (2) working group reports on the topics of fractal geometry in the…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Constructivism (Learning)
