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Analyses of classroom observations of an episode in a special electronic mathematics class in the Danish Upper Secondary School (pupils aged 16–19)—all pupils have their own PC and two pupils are working with the law of sines—indicates how the pupils create personal meaning through their use of the Geometer’s Sketchpad Program (GSP). The degree of openness of the task and the challenging dialogue conducted with the teacher are seen to be decisive within the activity, but not without considerable demand on the teacher in terms of the teacher’s knowledge and ability in supporting the pupils’ in their acquisition of the desired outcomes.
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Blomhøj, M. (1998). Construction of personal meaning through the use of advanced geometrical software: the case of trigonometry. In: Tinsley, D., Johnson, D.C. (eds) Information and Communications Technologies in School Mathematics. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35287-9_26
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