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RESEARCH PAPER
Integrating Technologies Into Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Beginning of Secondary Education in Austria
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Linz School of Education, STEM Education, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz, AUSTRIA
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University College of Education Upper Austria, Department of Mathematics Education, Kaplanhofstraße 40, A-4020 Linz, AUSTRIA
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Universität Wien, Fakultät für Mathematik, Austria, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, AUSTRIA
Publication date: 2021-12-17
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2021;17(12):em2057
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Modern technologies have become an integral part in our society and are increasingly shaping
the teaching of mathematics at every level of education. In Austria, the academic school year
2021/22 will undergo an extensive digitalisation; all students who start secondary school will be
equipped with a digital device. Our paper reports on anticipated concerns and benefits of
mathematics teachers who are required to integrate technologies into teaching mathematics at
the first year of secondary education. We conducted an exploratory interview study with
secondary mathematics teachers before schools received their digital devices. The data was
analysed with techniques based on grounded theory approaches. We discovered that for teachers
the anticipated concerns and benefits were: (A) discrimination of students by technologies, (B) by
using technologies, students may lose basic mathematical knowledge and skills, (C) individual and
playful acquisition of new technological competencies by teachers, and (D) using technologies to
enhance differentiation and individualisation in mathematics teaching. One of the key findings of
our study is that mathematics teachers in Austria feel capable enough to integrate technologies
into the teaching and learning of mathematics at the beginning of secondary education and do
not express the need for further technical training. This finding contradicts previous studies and
provides a starting point for future investigations.
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