Austrian Center for Didactics of Computer Algebra

New emphasis of fundamental algebraic competence and its influence in exam situation

Abstract:

Not only does the exam situation influence the students´ learning behavior – also the learning process itself influences the exam situation – we watch a closed loop: The idea of our research project was influenced by the observations of the learning process and now a year later we receive a feedback from the behavior in the exam situation to the motivation and strategies in the learning process.
Samour Papert had a dream: Just as you learn a foreign language best in a country where it is spoken you would learn the language of mathematics best in a "mathematic land" and he was sure that his Logo-learning environment would be such a "Mathematic Land". Years later we can say Logo is not the "holy land"

We did not find such a "holy land" when working with CAS, not for the pupils and not for the teachers, but an interesting learning environment for a

• more meaningful,
• more interesting,
• and more future oriented

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