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Aunt Sarah and the Farm: A guided tour of a spreadsheet exploration.
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1386–1393
This paper provides a guided tour illustrating how students can effectively use spreadsheets to internalize and construct meanings for quadratics. The "Aunt Sarah" activity has been used for over 20 years and has been carefully designed to allow...
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Burning the Candle: A Technology Immune Technology Enabled Problem within an Action on Objects Framework
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 1724–1730
This paper illustrates how Technology Immune Technology Enabled (TITE) problems (Abramovich, 2014), in this case an exploration of correlation and regressions referred to as Burning the Candle , were incorporated into a K-6 mathematics methods class ...
Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues
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TITE Problem Solving: Integrating Computing and Proving in Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education
Sergei Abramovich; Michael Connell
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1894–1900
The paper reflects on an earlier research on the use of technology in secondary mathematics teacher education through the lenses of newer digital tools (Wolfram Alpha, Maple), most recent standards for teaching mathematics, and recommendations for...
Topics: mathematics education, Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Stamping Functions: A Technology Immune Technology Enabled Problem within an Action on Objects Framework.
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1907–1913
This paper illustrates how the notion of Technology Immune Technology Enabled (TITE) problems (Abramovich, 2014), in this case an exploration of variations in surface area we refer to as Stamping Functions , might be incorporated into a K-6...
Topics: mathematics education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Promoting Technology Uses in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom: Lessons in Pedagogy from Zoltan Dienes.
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 1024–1031
Today technology allows for the utilization of new classes of mathematical objects which are themselves subject to new modes of student interaction. A series of notable examples may be found in the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. These...
Topics: Instructor Training and Support, improving classroom teaching, pedagogical issues
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Integrated spreadsheets as a paradigm of Type II technology applications in mathematics teacher education
Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2461–2466
The paper presents the use of spreadsheets integrated with digital tools capable of symbolic computations and graphic constructions in a master’s level capstone course for secondary mathematics teachers. Such use of spreadsheets is congruent with...
Topics: mathematics education, Computational Thinking, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Digital Fabrication and Aunt Sarah: Enabling Quadratic Explorations Via Technology.
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 3583–3590
When viewed as a content area, mathematics has a split personality. To use an example from language, there are parts of mathematics that function very much like a noun (the concepts of mathematics), while others function more like a verb (procedures,...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technology Education, Computational Thinking, Digital Fabrication, Personality, Mathematics
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Teaching and learning mathematics in technologically intensive classrooms.
Michael Connell; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2658–2663
Mathematics instruction is currently undergoing significant shifts concerning the nature of both content and the manner in which foundational understandings are to be developed. For example, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM),...
Topics: Classrooms, mathematics education, Mathematics, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Technology as a Context for Seconday Pre-teachers' Use of Algebraic Inequalities in a Capstone Course
Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3945–3952
This paper presents pedagogical ideas related to the use of algebraic inequalities as tools in context-oriented computing applications. Developed for and used in a capstone course, these ideas are consistent with and support recommendations for...
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Didactical Aspects of Using Technology for Problem Posing in Mathematics Teacher Education
Sergei Abramovich; Eun Kyeong Cho
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3208–3210
This paper introduces and explores the notion of didactical coherence in technology-enhanced mathematical problem posing. The authors argue that problem posing in a technological paradigm cannot be adequately understood without attending to this...
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Professional Development School as a Venue for Integrating Technology in Teacher Education
Sergei Abramovich; Eun Kyeong Cho; Cara Dodge Coffin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3211–3215
This presentation reports the results of a faculty-student partnership in the framework of Professional Development School. It reflects on a collaborative effort of two faculty members and a teacher candidate enrolled in a graduate program in...
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Developing Elementary Pre-teachers’ Problem-formulating Skills in Mathematics Using Technology
Sergei Abramovich; Eun Kyeong Cho
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4372–4377
This paper discusses the use of technology as a medium for problem formulating in elementary mathematics. It is motivated by the authors' work with elementary pre-service teachers. The paper includes ideas, both practical and theoretical, related to ...
Topics: Mathematics, Teachers
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Spreadsheets in Education: A Peer-reviewed Medium for Active Learning
Sergei Abramovich; Steve Sugden
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4542–4547
It has been more than a decade since electronic journals were first suggested as a possible means of revolutionizing traditional print. In education, the availability of teaching ideas in a refereed electronic format presents an innovation in the...
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Technology and Hidden Curriculum in Mathematics Teacher Education
Peter Brouwer; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2843–2848
Motivated by work done with pre-service teachers in a problem-solving and advanced secondary mathematics courses, this paper shows how computing technologies, including a spreadsheet, Maple, and graphing software enable an informal journey into a...
Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Curriculum, Schools
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Bridging Transformational Geometry and Matrix Algebra with a Spreadsheet-Based Tool Kit
Anderson Norton; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1379–1384
This report presents technology-enhanced activities designed for secondary mathematics teachers within the context of matrix algebra, transformational geometry, and fractals. It concerns the ways in which a spreadsheet can be used as a tool kit...
Topics: Teachers
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New tools for new thoughts: Effects of changing the “Tools-to-Think- With” on the elementary mathematics methods course.
Michael L. Connell; Sergei Abramovich
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1052–1057
A central tenet of mathematics education reform is the integral role of technology at all grade levels. The current technological changes combined with the changes in the mathematics content and instructional method require elementary mathematics ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Computers, Mathematics, Elementary Education, Instructional Design
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Preparing K-12 Mathematics Teachers to Use a Spreadsheet as an Instructional Tool
Sergei Abramovich; Hollylynne Stohl Drier
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 950–954
This paper reflects on activities to help prepare elementary and secondary mathematics teachers to use a spreadsheet as an instructional tool. Collaboration on this paper was born out of common epistemological, pedagogical, and mathematical...
Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Collaboration
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Spreadsheets: A New Form of Educational Software for School Mathematics?
Sergei Abramovich; Hollylynne Stohl Drier; Sharon Dugdale; Simon Mochon; Erich Neuwirth; John Woodward
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 390–395
It has been a worldwide concern that novice mathematics teachers are not well prepared to use technology in the classroom. The lack of such preparation may be due, in part, to a gap between technology offered by schools of education and what the...
Topics: Mathematics, Educational Technology, Teachers, Schools
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Toolkit Approach to Using Spreadsheets in Secondary
Sergei Abramovich; Andrew Brantlinger
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 585–589
One of the central tenets of the current reform movement in mathematics teacher education is that the appropriate use of the tools of technology is integral to teaching and learning mathematics at all grade levels. A major force in this reform, the...
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Exploring Algebraic Word Problems Through Computer- Based Manipulatives and Diverse Technology
Sergei Abramovich; Wanda Nabors
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 267–271
It is generally accepted that many students have difficulties with solving word problems. MacGregor & Stacey (1993)