Technology Integration in Mathematics Education

Technology makes life easy and provides people to find new altenative ways and apply these ways to almost every fields of life in this century. I can use technological machine easily and like using it so that I got to know the technology early. In high school, my math teachers, especially in geometry lessons, have been very successful at using time effectively by taking advantage of technology. Our geometry teacher have reflected the questions using the overhead projector in the question-solving part of the lessons, helping their students see and solve more questions, that is, he have prefered using the technology in the exercise part. Likewise, I think that it can be used more while reinforcing topics and because there are so many abstract knowledge in mathematics, technology can be used in their concretization. For example , while showing development of 3D shapes , a teacher can reflect math applications related to the topic on projection. At this point , actually technology is like just for students with visual intelligence. I think paper and pencil would be more effective for the realization and persistence of learning. In this example, even if technology helps use time effectively, I think information will not be permanent so technology is not appropriate for every topics or technology integration in mathematics should be arranged to be effective.

In this age, our generation is inclined to use technology so as a teacher candidate the generation can integrate technology with mathematics easily than teachers from previous generation. Since current students is more interested in technological tools in every field of life, math teachers can try to motivate students with using technological tools, applications and programs. Thus, the students will be curiosity about topics taught. Finally, as a teacher candidate I think a math teacher should plan the lesson according to the possibilities by using the technology very well and also he or she should have the ability to teach mathematics without advanced technology by consider poor opportunities in schools. So teachers try to continuously improve yourself in their field.