New technological environments: new constraints, new opportunities for the teacher

Abstract

International audienceFrench experiments carried out over the last three years on mathematics teaching in complex calculator environments-in particular with TI-92-allow to draw some lessons:-the introduction of this kind of calculators does not simplify the teacher's work, nor the pupils' ;-it requires a new teaching organization of learning space and a new management style of time. We shall argue that, under these conditions, work in complex calculator environments can lead to a transformation of students' relationships to mathematics (giving priority to the creative side of work). Moreover, one can observe a transformation of students' collective relationships to knowledge (giving greater importance to social aspects)