Information and Communications Technologies in School Mathematics: IFIP TC3 / WG3.1 Working Conference on Secondary School Mathematics in the World of Communication Technology: Learning, Teaching and the Curriculum, 26–31 October 1997, Grenoble, France

Front Matter....Pages i-x
ICTs and secondary school mathematics—themes, visions and realities....Pages 1-6
The impact of informatics on the teaching of mathematics....Pages 7-17
Towards an embodied view of the mathematics curriculum in a world of technology....Pages 19-28
Social uses of the Internet and the construction of new models for mathematics teaching and learning....Pages 29-39
Young students and future teachers as passengers on the Logo engine....Pages 41-52
How informatics and discrete thinking return to school....Pages 53-64
For the development of mathematics education—from the view-point of computer science....Pages 65-67
Using the history of mathematics as a source of technology-rich problems....Pages 68-70
Towards more natural interfaces....Pages 71-76
Spreadsheets: just smart calculators or a new paradigm for thinking about mathematical structures?....Pages 77-88
Personal computing technology: use and possibilities....Pages 89-97
Computer-supported mathematical learning in the information age: mathematical modelling learned through hypertexts....Pages 99-105
A genetic way to conic sections and planetary motion with Cabri-Géomètre....Pages 107-110
Construction of meaning and teacher control of learning....Pages 111-120
Teacher training as a key issue for the integration of computer technologies....Pages 121-129
The computer in mathematics teaching: scenes from the classroom....Pages 131-139
The integration of IT and teacher training: supporting teachers in their use of hardware and software tools in the school mathematics classroom....Pages 141-150
Teachers and technology: the case of mathematical learning....Pages 151-160
Teachers and technology: pre-service training for mathematics....Pages 161-164
Moving from fashions to a continuous stream of change: teacher development and IT....Pages 165-167
A culture of proving in school mathematics?....Pages 169-182
Relationships between the spatial and theoretical in geometry: the role of computer dynamic representations in problem solving....Pages 183-194
Computers and applied constructivism....Pages 195-203
Cognitive development and classroom interaction: a theoretical foundation for teaching and learning....Pages 205-213
Preparing for the computer age at an early age....Pages 215-224
Construction of personal meaning through the use of advanced geometrical software: the case of trigonometry....Pages 225-228
Complementing different software environments to mediate the introduction of variable, parameter and unknown....Pages 229-232
Authority and responsibility when learning mathematics in a technology-enhanced environment....Pages 233-236
Human and social issues in the age of informatics....Pages 237-245
Challenge, conflict and culture: issues for secondary school mathematics educators....Pages 247-254
Spreadsheets for mathematics in a developing nation....Pages 255-264
Educational experiments of distance learning and reorganisation of mathematics education....Pages 265-274
On-line communities as a vehicle for developing secondary mathematics educators....Pages 275-278
Focus Group Reports....Pages 279-293
Back Matter....Pages 293-305