Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching articles from March 2005

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching archives from March 2005

Third-graders learn about fractions using virtual manipulatives: a classroom study.
March 22, 2005... With recent advances in computer technology, it is no surprise that the manipulation of objects in mathematics classrooms now includes the manipulation of objects on the computer screen. These objects, referred to as virtual manipulatives, are...

Analysis of local and foreign edutainment products--an effort to implement the design framework for an edutainment environment in Malaysia.
March 22, 2005... In the world of 'edutainment' where multimedia is the ultimate content provider, educational electronic games are a new and fun way for young children to learn concepts and processes that have usually been delivered via books within the...

Carbopolis: a Java technology-based free software for environmental education.
March 22, 2005... The goals of this paper are to describe some characteristics of the pedagogical project of the Carbopolis software and some programming solutions that were found during the computational implementation of this software. Relative to the first...

The suitable way is backwards, but they work forward.
March 22, 2005... Sometimes, if you do not begin at the end, you end at the beginning. This problem-solving phenomenon, in the realm of computer science (CS), is the subject of this paper. Beginning at the end yields a "working backwards" approach, opposite to...

Characterising individual and social concept development in collaborative computer science classrooms.
March 22, 2005... Within-group similarities and between-group differences are used to illustrate the socio-cultural nature of the concept-building process in highly collaborative computer science classrooms. Simultaneously, a social constructivist perspective is...