The Fifth International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT 5)
will be held at the University of Klagenfurt; Aug 6-9, 2001.
It is the plan of the organizers, to structure the submitted more lecture type papers into strands which each have a renowned speaker as a leading "figure".
Moreover, to offer a plenty of discussion and group work, there will be a number of special groups and working groups organized.

For any enquiries relating to this strand, please do not hesitate to contact the chair. If your contribution should fit to this strand, please also contact the chair directly: lagrange@univ-rennes1.fr

Schedule and abstracts

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With the development of technology, new visions are offered for teaching and learning mathematics. Innovative technological environments have great potential for challenging students to investigate richer problems. They offer new opportunities for working on mathematical processes and objects and communicating mathematical ideas. To achieve this integration of IC Technologies, new visions are not by themselves sufficient. We urgently need to consider the issues that technology brings about:

• The effect of technology on the mathematical knowledge and registers of expression.
• The changes that technology brings into the didactical situations.
• The evolution of tasks, techniques and theories in the context of the integration of technology.
• Technological instruments as mental constructions by students, and their effect on students? mathematical thinking.
• The cognitive framework to analyse students ? functioning in technological settings as well as their interaction with technological tools.
• The influence of teachers ? beliefs, their new role as organizers of the classroom activity.
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A plenary address will be given by Tommy Dreyfus, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel:

The construction of meaning for abstract algebraic concepts

Contributions are expected to tackle one or more of the above questions and to draw on research studies on the introduction of any kind of technology at any level of mathematical teaching. From these contributions, the strand will aim to promote a better understanding of the multiple changes that technology brings into students? learning and to open new directions for a successful integration.

A pre-conference forum will be organised to prepare the discussion for the strand.

A Selection of talks at ICTMT-4 regarded as topical for ICTMT-5 Strand 1

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J.B. Lagrange

Schedule and abstracts