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Reshaping the Learning Experience Through Apps: Affordances

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Uses of Technology in Primary and Secondary Mathematics Education

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This paper reports on how the affordances of the app Math Shake reshaped the learning experience—an aspect of a research project examining the ways mobile technologies are used in primary -school mathematics. Students used different digital tools within the app to solve word problems, while the affordances , including simultaneous linking, focussed constraint, creative variation, dynamic and haptic, made the learning experience different from when using pencil-and-paper technology. However, while the affordances of the mobile technologies are important, the teacher’s pedagogical approach was also influential in the learning.

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  1. University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand

    Nigel Calder

  2. University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Lynda Ball

  2. Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Paul Drijvers

  3. University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Silke Ladel

  4. Institute of Mathematics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Hans-Stefan Siller

  5. School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Michal Tabach

  6. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Colleen Vale

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Calder, N., Murphy, C. (2018). Reshaping the Learning Experience Through Apps: Affordances. In: Ball, L., Drijvers, P., Ladel, S., Siller, HS., Tabach, M., Vale, C. (eds) Uses of Technology in Primary and Secondary Mathematics Education. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76575-4_8

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