Technology in Mathematics.

Technology it seems, is a treasured teaching tool in the classroom, no matter for which learning domain it is for.

One of the maths lessons that i had planned for the children included the use of technology. I had used used my Ipad to encourage children to explore shapes. It was something different for them as they found that they could manipulate the shapes into another shapes just by dragging certain points of the shape. They were so fascinated that a rectangle could become a square ( and this was before i found out that a square is a rectangle!) and that a triangle could be diamond. It opened up a whole new perspective for them, learning through the computer.

However, although technology is useful in many ways to encourage and to reinforce the children's learning, i still favor the old school method of having concrete objects in front of them. But hey, who am i to say that they don't learn as well with technology.

This calls for another Mathematics lesson ..