Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S103

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


From Pythagoras to Pick Using Technology: Excerpts from a Mathematics Teacher Education Course

Andrew Brantlinger


Northwestern University, SESP
2120 N. Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208
USA


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Sergei Abramovich


SUNY at Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Av.
Potsdam, NY 13676
USA


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ABSTRACT

This paper reflects on several innovative uses of spreadsheets with pre-service teachers of mathematics that have a potential to provide the teachers with a research-like experience needed for successful teaching at the secondary school level and can result in their appreciation of mathematical concepts as tools in computing applications.

Keyword(s): teacher training, geometry, trigonometry, spreadsheets