Calculators in Primary Mathematics.

Autor/inn/en	Stacey, Kaye; Groves, Susie
Titel	Calculators in Primary Mathematics.
Quelle	(1994), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Arithmetic; Calculators; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Mathematics Instruction; Mathematics Skills; Mental Computation; Number Systems; Observation; Questionnaires; Teacher Attitudes; Word Problems (Mathematics); Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Addition; Arithmetik; Arithmetikunterricht; Rechnen; Calculator; Rechner; Rechenmaschine; Elementarunterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Kopfrechnen; Number system; Zahlensystem; Beobachtung; Fragebogen; Lehrerverhalten; Textaufgabe; Australien
Abstract	The Calculators in Primary Mathematics Project was a long-term investigation into the effects of the introduction of calculators on the learning and teaching of primary mathematics. The Australian project commenced with children who were in kindergarten and grade 1 in 1990, moving up through the schools to grade 4 level by 1993. Children were given their own calculators to use when they wished, while teachers were provided with some systematic professional support. Over 60 teachers and 1,000 children participated in the project. This paper gives an overview of the project, with particular emphasis on the ways in which teachers incorporated calculators into their classrooms and the resulting long-term learning outcomes for the students. It first reports on a survey of 700 primary, 7th-, and 8th-grade teachers which established that teachers now support calculator use, even in the first grades, but that actual use falls far behind the support expressed. A brief description is given of the major ways in which the calculator was used in project schools--as a computational device, as a recording device, to count, and as an object to explore. Testing of 3rd- and 4th-grade students (n=225) established that children did understand the number system better after sustained calculator use and that they were better able to choose an appropriate operation in a word problem. A series of interviews showed that calculator use had assisted children to develop number sense and skills of mental computation. Contains 20 references. (MKR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC