New information technologies have to act as a Trojan horse offering activities that will require deep changes in the teaching-learning process. Computer aided learning applications are able to offer advanced students the opportunity to improve their skill and to maintain their motivation. In the spirit of “learning by doing”, they are encouraged to discover principles by themselves. In this paper, a friendly package implemented in MathematicaTM was developed with the aim of killing the old idea that Mathematics and its teaching are tedious! It was designed in order to closely connect the expositive component, i.e. material that describes the theoretical background of the subject, and the active component for exercises.
How Learning Mathematics Can Be Made More Enjoyable
D'APICE, Ciro;MANZO, Rosanna
2005-01-01
Abstract
New information technologies have to act as a Trojan horse offering activities that will require deep changes in the teaching-learning process. Computer aided learning applications are able to offer advanced students the opportunity to improve their skill and to maintain their motivation. In the spirit of “learning by doing”, they are encouraged to discover principles by themselves. In this paper, a friendly package implemented in MathematicaTM was developed with the aim of killing the old idea that Mathematics and its teaching are tedious! It was designed in order to closely connect the expositive component, i.e. material that describes the theoretical background of the subject, and the active component for exercises.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
