Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper W014

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68983-6, Copyright (C) 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Inspiration for Problem Creation

Jeffrey Wanko


Miami University

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ABSTRACT

Can we still teach problem solving when students have access to powerful technology? Absolutely - but the problems have to change. And who better to help change the problems but the students themselves. Learn and experience how preservice teachers identified problems that were often trivialized when they had access to the TI -Nspire CAS handheld and how they revised the problems to make them more 'technology-proof.' With this approach, preservice teachers became much more proficient with the technology, they developed innovative strategies for using technology to solve problems, and they learned to identify the fundamental mathematics involved in order to devise new variations on the problems.

Keyword(s): teacher training, TI-Nspire