I have a currently have a professor that believes the only technology that can be used while teaching a math lesson is a calculator. Because she thinks that is the only technology that can be used in a math classroom, she thinks that every age needs to be using a calculator. Not true. Not true at all. I don't believe that elementary classrooms need to be using a calculator. The students in those classrooms are being introduced to new math concepts and therefore, need to learn how to do it by hand and mentally. I do understand that calculators are being used more and more, however, I still believe that it is imperative for young students to learn the basics by hand.
I do think also that there are many, many more technology tools that math teachers could be learning about. They could be taught about how to use a SMARTboard in the classroom, or the website with the polls. Those technological advances will be crucial to the classroom eventually, and I am still sort of clueless as to how to use them. I think that if the math technology class was as advanced as this Ed Tech and Design class, the math minors might be able to incorporate fun math ideas with technology and make it more interesting for students to learn and enjoy math.
Calculators are not the latest and greatest technology anymore. It would be more benefivial to learn about lessons we could create for our math class to incorporate with technology.
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