The use of technology to motivate, to present and to deepen the comprehension of math

• Main Author: Kobal, Damjan
• Other Authors: HTW Dresden, Informatik, Mathematik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2012
• Subjects: Motivation; Technologie; Dynamische Geometrie; intuitiv; rational; Fahrradgetriebe; arithmetisches Mittel; Differenzialgetriebe im Auto; Geodäsie; Parabel; Dimmen und Flashen der Scheinwerfer; Funktion; Analog; Digital; Technology; Dynamic Geometry; Intuitive; Ratio; Bicycle Gears; Arithmetic Mean; Car Differential; Geodesics; Parabola; Dim and Flash Headlights; Function; ddc:510; rvk:SD 2009
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80412; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80412; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/8041/Proceedings-636pages-Dresden2009_331-332.pdf

The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss several ideas which relate to technology as well as to creative teaching. Educational experience, common sense and educational research have all proven how important for comprehensive understanding different cognitive representations are. We will present and discuss several elementary mathematical ideas of which mechanical realisations mean ingenius technological inventions (for example: ‘car differential’ and ‘digital sound technology’). Technological insights can provide deep intuitive understanding of otherwise abstract mathematical concepts and therefore yield also better comprehension of mathematics. Besides that we will use and present the technology in the form of dynamic geometry programs to show, provoke and motivate rethinking and deeper understanding of several elementary mathematical concepts.