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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affordances in Mathematics Education

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Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education

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New forms of technology that enhance access to core mathematical concepts through dynamic representations and classroom connectivity.

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Informationhas changed over the past 10 years. Information can be thought of as a knowledge base, and with advances in technology, access to this knowledge is increasing on a daily basis. Knowledge is growing and the impact of such growth on education is wide and varied. In addition to thinking of information as the accumulation of knowledge, it can also be thought of as how knowledge can be represented, and in mathematics education, this has certainly evolved rapidly over the past decade in terms of the representational affordances of new technologies both software and hardware. Information is now embedded in representational media. In mathematics education, this has enabled a transformation of the mathematics from static to dynamic symbolic systems through which teachers and learners can access knowledge and think....

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, MA, USA

    Stephen Hegedus

  2. School of Education, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Stephen Hegedus

  3. Department of Mathematics Education, CINVESTAV-IPN, National Polytechnic Institute, Ciudad de México, Mexico

    Luis Moreno-Armella

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  1. Department of Education, Centre for Mathematics Education, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Stephen Lerman

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA

    Bharath Sriraman

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Hegedus, S., Moreno-Armella, L. (2020). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affordances in Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_78

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