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Research Articles about Math, and Technology
End the Math Wars Authors: Matt Kuhn and Kathleen Dempsey The main idea of End the Math Wars is allowing students to play video games or to use technology to learn math. The questions the author answered were whether it is a good idea for students using technology with math. Also he and she answered questions about the idea of teaching math with technology fit into the common core standards. The authors went about this study was by looking a study where real students were placed in a real classroom and they have to use technology to learn. The students that were studied in this article were on specified so I am going to assume that are in middle school/ Jr. High School. The results were successful because the students were very engaged in this study. If the students could not figure out how to get to the next part of the game they were looking for help from their teachers, textbooks, or the internet just so they could keep getting to the next level. This article made me think that it may be okay for students to use technology with mathematics when earlier I had my doubts. This article made me ask what games the students were playing are. How many games is there that students can use for the mathematics purpose and is there games for other subjects? How would students do homework and or quizzes? I would ask the authors if they could tell me more about the studies with the students and how they may have been able to test the students’ improvement. I might incorporate video games or computer games into the curriculum so the students will not always have to listen to me lecture. I have not used technology in a lesson to teach students. I think it would be fun and interesting to use this form of technology to teach students math or to allow students to teach themselves how to do math.

Fitting Technology To The Mathematics Pedagogy: Its Effect On Students’ Academic Achievement Author: Leila R. Gano The main idea the author addressed was, is it a good teaching tool to use “self-study video (SSV)”. The author was curious as if this was an effective way to teach students compared to the traditional way of teaching students. The author studies their own ideas by have a class of students taught the traditional way and having a class of student learn the SSV way. The author found that there had to be a whole curriculum created just so they could study whether or not the SSV way of learning was effective or not. The group of students that were studied was college students. The results of this study was that the students taught the traditional way scored a little higher on the test, but not much higher than the students that were tested in the SSV class. So students can learn effectively the SSV just like as if they were in a traditional class. Students can learn effectively from untraditional learning. How difficult and how long would it take to create this whole new curriculum for the SSV class? I would ask the author to elaborate more on what the students had to do for the SSV class to show that they were actually watching the videos. What would the professor or teacher have to do to create test for this type of learning? I would have to change the SSV style because this was used for a college class and not a middle/high school class. I probably would not have the students watch videos everyday that they come to class. I would intermix traditional learning with the SSV learning. I want my students to be engaged and interested, and by the way the author states the data they have found it would just seem fitting to mix the two versions of teaching to help students learn more and in an effective way.

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