The Role of Technology

• Helps students uncover the math, understand and solve problems
  • Provides multiple ways to model/represent the math of the problem
  • Fosters visualization of the problem situation
  • Removes the tedium and allows students to focus on the ideas
  • Facilitates pattern discovery
  • Makes richer mathematics accessible to more children.
  • Motivates students.

• Helps students communicate the results of their learning
  • Revisability
  • Greater variety of modes