Some Hungarian examples of using ICT in mathematics classrooms

Kati MunkacsyEotvos University, Budapest

Euromath conference, Innsbruck

I. A new method of using CABRI

Gabriella AmbrusEine neue Verwendung der CABRI – „kombinierte“ Arbeitsblätter als Lernhilfen

II. Hungarian Schoolnet

http://www.sulinet.hu/tart/alkat/ag

1. Interesting mathematics texts, tasks, games

Erdélyi DánielEdan" <edan@option.hu>

2. A guide for teachers

http://www.euklides.hu/eng/euklides.htm

Euklides supports logical and didactical composition of constructions, but contains also many complex objects, of course. You can add directly for example bisector, tangent, special points and circles of a triangle etc

3. On line forum about mathematics education

Mat-Kapocs mailing list Remarks after articles 15 topics of mathematics teacher forum:

What is the good math teacher like?Mathematics is too teoretical!Why we are teaching the history of mathematics? …

4. Information on Internet resources

After articles, for example:http://celebrate.digitalbrain.com/celebrate/web/Courses/English/?language=en-gb

5. Interactive softwares

Under construction More, than 200 applets

http://www.meltor.hu/eduweb/

Reading and wrinting the graphs of the functions, applets on the web

III. Teacher training

Pre-Service training In-Service training

Using Internet at Eötvös Universityin the teacher training

What is ThinkQuest?ThinkQuest is an international website-building competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Teams of students and teachers are challenged to build websites on educational topics. These websites are published in the popular ThinkQuest Library and top-scoring teams win valuable prizes.

http://www.thinkquest.org

1. Information technology

Softwares for secondary students, some examples of applied mathematics

- Sundials- Astronomy- Cryptography

1. Information technology

Some examples of mathematics history

- Number writtings- Ancient Greek mathematics- Bolyai’s geometry

2. Communication technology

Distance learningKolozsvár (Cluj) – Szeged – Budapest

Innovative Didacticshttp://idi.ptmik.hu/IDI/index.htmlLearning through the Web, University of Twente, 2001, Hans Pelgrum, Joke Voogt

IV. An experiment in the classrooms:History of mathematics on the web

University St Andrewhttp://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html

History of Mathematics on CD-ROMNincs királyi út, TYPOTEX Kiadó, 2000

Munkácsy KatalinEgyütt tanulás egy CD ürügyén, Matematika, informatika és könyvtár szakos tanárok, valamint diákok közös fejlesztő tevékenysége, Iskolakultúra, 2003

Learning together with a CD-ROM, mathematics, ICT, library

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