Comments on: Teaching Ordered Pairs Using Technology http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/2008/09/20/efficient-ways-to-teach-ordered-pairs-using-technology/ Education Technology & Software For Teaching Math Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:20:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Redmond http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/2008/09/20/efficient-ways-to-teach-ordered-pairs-using-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Elizabeth Redmond Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:48:14 +0000 http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/?p=253#comment-4 NA: As Pete Seeger sang, "To everything ... there is season ... and a time for every purpose under heaven." As so is true with calculators. As a math educator, one of the decisions we have to make is how and when to use technology in our lessons. Calculators (and other technology) enhance and speed up the learning experience. They can eliminate the time spent on long and sometimes complicated series of computations and allow students to focus on the problem solving. Here two articles that explore this topic further: http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/research_therole.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080819160203.htm The article from Science Daily discusses current research about the importance of children needing to learn how to calculate answers on thier own, but that the calculator is also a good tool for the basic facts. My friend and colleague, Rusen Meylani, made a post today on the use of calculators in the classroom.....you might consider reading his thoughts too! Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for us teachers to know when exactly to employ the use of a calculator. We need to consider the lesson or task we put before our students and ask ourselves what role the calculator would play. Best of luck in your studies! Hope to see you back on the blog soon! -Elizabeth NA:

As Pete Seeger sang, “To everything … there is season … and a time for every purpose under heaven.” As so is true with calculators. As a math educator, one of the decisions we have to make is how and when to use technology in our lessons.

Calculators (and other technology) enhance and speed up the learning experience. They can eliminate the time spent on long and sometimes complicated series of computations and allow students to focus on the problem solving.

Here two articles that explore this topic further:
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/research_therole.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080819160203.htm

The article from Science Daily discusses current research about the importance of children needing to learn how to calculate answers on thier own, but that the calculator is also a good tool for the basic facts.

My friend and colleague, Rusen Meylani, made a post today on the use of calculators in the classroom…..you might consider reading his thoughts too!

Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for us teachers to know when exactly to employ the use of a calculator. We need to consider the lesson or task we put before our students and ask ourselves what role the calculator would play.

Best of luck in your studies! Hope to see you back on the blog soon!
-Elizabeth

]]> By: Ruth Green http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/2008/09/20/efficient-ways-to-teach-ordered-pairs-using-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ruth Green Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:30:34 +0000 http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/?p=253#comment-3 Catch the Fly was very easy to use. I imagine that students would much rather be graphing on-line as opposed to on paper. However, the stress of the time limits on Locate the Aliens was very intimidating! The boxes should be identified as x and y for better understanding. Also, I would like to see an icon to click your answer as opposed to press enter. Again, much more fun than identifying coordinates of a point on paper! Catch the Fly was very easy to use. I imagine that students would much rather be graphing on-line as opposed to on paper. However, the stress of the time limits on Locate the Aliens was very intimidating! The boxes should be identified as x and y for better understanding. Also, I would like to see an icon to click your answer as opposed to press enter. Again, much more fun than identifying coordinates of a point on paper!

]]> By: NA http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/2008/09/20/efficient-ways-to-teach-ordered-pairs-using-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-2 NA Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:59:36 +0000 http://www.ed-tech-4-math.com/?p=253#comment-2 I am currently studying for my teaching license and MAT to teach secondary mathematic. I have been substituting in various grade levels for several years and have noticed quite a dependency on calculators. While I completely agree with incorporating the use of technology in the classroom as much as possible for many reasons, I feel it is essential that the students still know and understand how to do the basics by hand and in their head. This would include being able to draw a quick graph for reference on a piece of paper with a pencil, and this does take practice. How do teachers know when to allow the use of calculators on a regular basis and how do you suggest a teacher make sure the students know the basics before depending on the calculator? Thanks for any suggestions! I am currently studying for my teaching license and MAT to teach secondary mathematic. I have been substituting in various grade levels for several years and have noticed quite a dependency on calculators. While I completely agree with incorporating the use of technology in the classroom as much as possible for many reasons, I feel it is essential that the students still know and understand how to do the basics by hand and in their head. This would include being able to draw a quick graph for reference on a piece of paper with a pencil, and this does take practice. How do teachers know when to allow the use of calculators on a regular basis and how do you suggest a teacher make sure the students know the basics before depending on the calculator?
Thanks for any suggestions!

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