Alyson:

Maths is an extremely complex and complicated KLA, and technology can help us focus our attention on the more important aspects of the topic we are looking at as well as saving time and effort. I am extremely grateful that I never had to look up logs in a book/table at school. I just typed it into the calculator and the answer popped up. Graphics calculators are helping students now and in the future to save time with the sometimes overwhelming amounts of content and concepts they are expected to know. Technology like this, however, should be a learning tool and not a neccessity. Students should know roughly what many graphs look like, and not rely on the calculator to tell them.

Computers are evidently a vital part of the future and the present. Teachers should harness young people’s grasp on computers and other technology and use this in the classroom. Interactive websites and online maths games can stimulate interest and help students retain content; however, using computers in the classroom can be hard to manage due to students generally being more knowledgable about computers than their teachers. Students may hence become bored by the teacher’s instructions and move on to their own preferred type of amusement: rather than focusing on the maths, they are concentrating on the computer and what they can do with that.