TY - GEN
T1 - Applets and paper & pencil tasks as resources for working with mathematical representations
AU - Tzayada, Odelya
AU - Tabach, Michal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Integrating applets into mathematics lessons is a challenge for elementary school teachers. The current study aims to evaluate to what extent applets chosen by the teachers functioned as resources, as compared to paper & pencil resources in mathematics lessons. In this study 42 teachers used, for the first time, applet activities in their lesson as well as paper & pencil tasks. The analysis focused on two mathematical aspects: The mathematical content and the required competence when engaging with representations. The findings show that teachers tended to prefer the applet activity over the paper & pencil task regarding representations. Furthermore, teachers preferred activities that move from the concrete to the abstract and not the opposite, regardless of the resource type.
AB - Integrating applets into mathematics lessons is a challenge for elementary school teachers. The current study aims to evaluate to what extent applets chosen by the teachers functioned as resources, as compared to paper & pencil resources in mathematics lessons. In this study 42 teachers used, for the first time, applet activities in their lesson as well as paper & pencil tasks. The analysis focused on two mathematical aspects: The mathematical content and the required competence when engaging with representations. The findings show that teachers tended to prefer the applet activity over the paper & pencil task regarding representations. Furthermore, teachers preferred activities that move from the concrete to the abstract and not the opposite, regardless of the resource type.
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AN - SCOPUS:85180812515
SN - 9789659311248
T3 - Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
SP - 275
EP - 282
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
A2 - Ayalon, Michal
A2 - Koichu, Boris
A2 - Leikin, Roza
A2 - Rubel, Laurie
A2 - Tabach, Michal
PB - Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)
T2 - 46th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME 2023
Y2 - 16 July 2022 through 21 July 2022
ER -