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标题：Using Technology in Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective
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作者：Sergei Abramovich ; Michael L. Connell
期刊名称：ISRN Education
电子版ISSN：2090-8652
出版年度：2014
卷号：2014
DOI：10.1155/2014/345146
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：A central tenet of mathematics education reform is the integral role of technology at all grade levels. The current technological changes combined with the changes in the mathematics content and instructional method require elementary mathematics teachers to be able to design technology intensive lessons for exploration and discovery of these concepts through appropriate computer applications. In actual practice, however, most computer applications provided for mathematics education consist of software designed for a specific educational purpose: the solution in a can scenario. Furthermore, economic constraints often stand in the way of incorporating such special purpose software into an instructional setting. In this paper we will discuss an alternative to this traditional approach which shifts the instructional focus specific computer applications to more sophisticated uses of general purpose software. In particular educational uses of spreadsheets will be developed as an exemplar for this approach.