Abstract
Access to and implementation of digital technologies for mathematics teaching and learning across and within countries and regions display similarities and differences. This chapter is derived from regional presentations made at the ICMI Study 17 Conference held in Vietnam in December 2006. The descriptions of the situations in four countries (Russia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, South Africa) and one region (Latin-America) give a sense of the similarities against the general background of a global goal for schooling in the twenty-first century. The complex issue of universal access to digital technologies for meaningful mathematics learning, it is suggested, requires concerted efforts to address a host of mitigating factors.
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Binh Tay Company at Ho Chi Minh City.
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It is worth noting that although research in mathematics education has been a part of the insertion process in Brazil, its role has not been central.
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Simcalc and Stella were dropped because it was hard to fit these tools into the curriculum without more extensive teacher-training that was hard to achieve.
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The following individuals in Latin-America are acknowledged for providing information for the writing of the Sect. 17.3.5: from Argentina, Alicia Noemí Fayó, Liliana Homilka and Ignacio Luppi; from Brazil, Lulu Healy; from Chile, Juan J. Paredes; from Colombia, Ana Celia Castiblanco and Leonor Camargo; from Cuba, Paul Torres; from Costa Rica, Mario Marín and Edison de Faria (as well as the “Omar Dengo” Foundation); from Ecuador, Daniel Ajoy; from Guatemala, Claudia Lara; from Honduras: María Magdalena Alvarado; from Panamá, Analida Ardila; from the Dominican Republic, Miledys T. Tavárez; from Uruguay, Gustavo Bermudez; and from Venezuela, Alejandro del Mar.
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Julie, C., Leung, A., Thanh, N.C., Posadas, L.S., Sacristán, A.I., Semenov, A. (2009). Some Regional Developments in Access and Implementation of Digital Technologies and ICT. In: Hoyles, C., Lagrange, JB. (eds) Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain. New ICMI Study Series, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0146-0_17
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