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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Kynigos, Chronis; Psycharis, Giorgos – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2013
In this paper we aim to contribute to the process of networking between theoretical frames in mathematics education by means of forging connections between Constructionism and Instrumental Theory to discuss a design for instrumentalisation. We specifically focus on instrumentalisation, i.e. the ways in which students make changes to digital…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
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Kynigos, Chronis; Psycharis, Giorgos; Moustaki, Foteini – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2010
This paper reports on a design experiment conducted to explore the construction of meanings by 17 year old students, emerging from their interpretations and uses of algebraic like formalism. The students worked collaboratively in groups of two or three, using MoPiX, a constructionist computational environment with which they could create concrete…
Descriptors: Graphs, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics
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Psycharis, Giorgos; Latsi, Maria; Kynigos, Chronis – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2009
This paper reports on a case-study design experiment in the domain of fraction as number-measure. We designed and implemented a set of exploratory tasks concerning comparison and ordering of fractions as well as operations with fractions. Two groups of 12-year-old students worked collaboratively using paper and pencil as well as a specially…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Activities
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Kynigos, Chronis; Latsi, Maria – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2006
The new representations enabled by the educational computer game the "Juggler" can place vectors in a central role both for controlling and measuring the behaviours of objects in a virtual environment simulating motion in three-dimensional spaces. The mathematical meanings constructed by 13 year-old students in relation to vectors as objects, as a…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Games, Computer Simulation, Intuition