Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 27 Issue 1, June 1988
3 – 4
Technology and Mathematics: The Importance of Values
J. Dale Burnett
An example is worth a thousand pictures. Recently, I had the opportunity to observe a Grade 8 mathematics class in a computer lab environment. There were about 30 microcomputers, with a student at each one. The students were engaged in a math drill program requiring rapid responses to a series of computational problems of increasing difficulty.
