Current Proceedings on Technology

Yazarlar: Valéria Švecová, Gabriela Pavlovičová, Lucia Rumanová

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Math education,Google Earth,GPS,Geocaching

Özet: Development of children’s perception of geometric content is related with environment where early age children are broughtup and gain everlasting and informal knowledge. It is important to combine the knowledge with real life situations. This can be done by solving applied mathematical problems using ICT and so developing pupil’s independence, activity and creativity from lowest grades of elementary school. By solving these problems pupils should be able to verbalize problems, find missing information to solve problems, make relations and be able to formulate and interpret results. We show how to use a PDA with GPS receiver in combination with Google Earth so we can visualize collected GPS data. We focus on Geocaching games as are fundamental for solving application problems on the computers in the class or outdoor. Be creating own problems and by solving existing ones, pupils develop spatial imagination and apply already collected geometrical knowledge.

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