Using Computers to Enhance the Mathematics Classroom Sharon Whitton Ayers Mercer University Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Gary G. Bitter Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona The computer has become a mathematical tool as fundamental to mathematics as books to reading. According to Paul Lutus (1986), mathematician and author of Apple Writer, "We are on the threshold of a revolution in mathematics--how we think about, how we practice it, and how we learn it" (p.38). This revolution is being spawned by the microcomputer. The use of computers in the classroom is raising serious questions about the teaching and learning of mathematics. These questions encompass both content and methods. In particular, since computers and calculators display numerals in decimal format, should there be a reordering of traditional mathematics content to precede fractions with decimals? How can the computer be used in diverting the focus of instruction from computational skills to problem solving? Should instructional methods shift from the usual deductive approach to a more experimental inductive approach which optimizes the interactive feature of the computer? Will the computer suggest the need for introducing new topics and even new courses in the mathematics curriculum? At this point in the evolution of educational computing,
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Using computers to enhance the mathematics classroom
Ayers, Sharon Whitton; Bitter, Gary G.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1988
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