PeCAS for Teaching Students
Bernhard Kutzler
b.kutzler@aon.at
ACDCA - Austrian Center for Didactics of CA
Austria
Abstract
First of all, we are teaching students - second we are teaching subjects
such as mathematics. Pedagogical Computer Algebra Systems (PeCAS) change
the way we teach mathematics and allow us to address the individual needs
of students. Confuzius says: "Give a person a fish - and you feed them
for a day. Teach a person to fish - and you feed them for a lifetime."
We demonstrate with examples how to best use PeCAS to teach students of
all abilities to fish for mathematical knowledge. We also provide a general
framework around these examples including the important issue of assessment.
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