Bring Your Own Device: Equalising learning in A level Mathematics?
An earlier version of this article appeared in the Mathematical Association Journal: Mathematics in School (November 2020). In July 2019 I was fortunate to be able to speak at the GeoGebra Global Gathering in Linz, Austria. I gave a presentation about how allowing students to use mathematical software on their own devices, both to support their learning in the classroom and as a tool they can use within assessment, is a potential solution to: Harnessing the power of technology to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics Increasing equality of access to technology for mathematics students. This article is a summary of the talk I gave there. Why should students use technology in mathematics? When I first started teaching there was an activity that I used with students to give them a strong conceptual understanding of differentiation and what the derivative of a function expresses. The activity was for them to plot the curve for y=x² on graph-paper, draw some tangents at differen