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Role of Technology in Teaching Mathematics
September 3, 2015
One of the big ideas discussed in these articles is that technology can
allow students and teachers to communicate their ideas quickly, clearly, and
in a variety of ways. There are a range of ways that technology can display
students work to the whole class. This allows students and teachers to share
ideas more frequently throughout the class period. This will allow students to
learn mathematics at a deeper level as they are able to share and discuss
ideas with their peers in class. This has the potential to help students stay
engaged as they share and explain their work to the class and along with
critically analyzing their peers work. The new technologies also allow
mathematics to be represented and explored in a variety of ways. This can
help students gain a deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics as
they model and represent mathematical ideas in a variety of ways. The
implications of this for me as a teacher are that I need to be aware of
different technologies that can display students work in order to see this
benefit my classroom. This will also help my classroom take a shift away
from traditional lecture-based learning towards task-based learning. As
technology allows for me to share students work, I can more easily teach
from students work on tasks rather than just teaching them through
traditional lectures. The wide range of models, diagrams, computer
programs, and other materials provide various ways for students to model
and explore mathematical ideas. This allows for students to reason and
problem solve as they explore various methods of solving problems. As a
teacher, I would need to be aware of when it is appropriate to allow students
to explore in whichever method they find most effective, and when to specify
particular technologies in order to model a particular mathematical
relationship or idea.