Back to CRME Home PageCollaborative Group for Research in Mathematics Education
Project team: Sara Merrett, Julie-Ann Edwards; Keith Jones
The aim of this project was to analyse the effectiveness of using an interactive whiteboard in promoting mathematical thinking in a secondary school.
The project was part-supported by a DfES research scholarship.
A report was submitted to the DfES covering the parts of the project supported by the DfES research scholarship.
Publications
Merrett, S. and Edwards, J. (2005), Enhancing mathematical thinking with an
interactive whiteboard, MicroMath, 21(3), 9-12.
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full paper in pdf format.
Edwards, J., Hartnell, M. and Martin, R. (2002), Interactive Whiteboards:
Some lessons from the classroom, MicroMath, 18(2), 30-33.
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full paper in pdf format.
Jones, K. (2004), Using Interactive Whiteboards in the
Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: a research bibliography, MicroMath,
20(2), 5-6.
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full article in pdf format.
Bibliography
Davison, I. (2002), Using an Interactive
Whiteboard to Facilitate Pupil Understanding of Quadrilateral
Definitions, Proceedings of the British Society for Research
into Learning Mathematics, 23(1), 13-18. and
Pratt, D. & Davison, I. (2003), Interactive Whiteboards
and the Construction of Definitions for the Kite, Proceedings
of 27th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology
of Mathematics Education (PME 27, Hawaii, July 2003), volume
4, p31-38.
Complementary accounts illustrating that the complexities
inherent in understanding definitions of quadrilaterals remain
even when some of the visual and kinaesthetic affordances of the
IWB are utilised.
Glover,
D., & Miller, D. (2001), Running with Technology: the
pedagogic impact of the large-scale introduction of interactive
whiteboards in one secondary school, Journal of Information
Technology for Teacher Education, 10(3), 257-276.
Case study of one secondary school, showing that even with a
fairly limited system in use in the mathematics department,
teaching can change to include more interaction, together with
associated group and class discussion.
Glover, D., Miller, D. & Averis, D.
(2004), Panacea or Prop: The Role of the Interactive Whiteboard
in Improving Teaching Effectiveness. Paper presented at the Tenth
International Congress of Mathematics Education. Copenhagen,
Denmark, July 2004.
Suggests that where IWBs are used in every lesson, the
novelty effect can diminish and that much depends on the overall
quality of teaching.
Godwin, S. and Sutherland, R. (2004),
Whole-class Technology for Learning Mathematics: the case
of functions and graphs. Education, Communication and
Information Journal (ECi), 4(1), 131-152.
Suggests that new pedagogical practices with ICT need both to
harness the potential of ICT to support individual pupil inquiry and
work within this inquiry-led practice to develop collective
knowledge within the whole class. While providing evidence that
the use of an IWB could become an important tool in this respect,
the authors provide reminders that much interactive learning can
take place with an ordinary (non-digital) whiteboard.
Greiffenhagen, C. (2000). Interactive
Whiteboards in Mathematics Education: Possibilities and Dangers.
Paper presented at the working group on The Use of Technology
in Mathematics Education held at the 9th
International Congress on Mathematical Education (Tokyo, Japan, July 2000).
Paper available from the author
Suggest that the IWB should not only be seen as a presentational
device for the teacher, but also as an interactive and
communicative device to enhance the communication with and
amongst pupils.
Perks, P. (2002), The Interactive
Whiteboard: implications for software design and use, Proceedings
of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics,
22(2), 55-60.
Emphasises the need to design teaching scenarios that make
full use of the interactivity available with an IWB.
Steed, A. (2002), Use of an interactive
whiteboard. Best Practice Research Scholarship (BPRS) report.
Suggests that there are benefits to using an IWB when teaching
particular mathematical topics, most noticeable in graph work
(although the author cautions that the data was collected over a
relatively short time period).
A useful bibliography of research on the use of Interactive Whiteboards in mathematics education is:
Jones, K. (2004), Using Interactive Whiteboards in the Teaching and Learning
of Mathematics: a research bibliography, MicroMath, 20(2), 5-6.
Click here for
full article in pdf format.
Other useful (but more general) publications on using Interactive Whiteboards include:
BECTa (2003), What the Research Says
about Interactive Whiteboards.
Online at: http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/wtrs_whiteboards.pdf
MirandaNet (2002), Transforming Learning
Using Interactive Whiteboards
Online at: http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk/ftp/whiteboard.pdf
Links
Below are links to some of the current ongoing projects, developments and networks that involve the use of IWB technology and from which further reports are likely to emerge (in alphabetic order by name of project):
InterActive Education: teaching and learning
in the information age:
http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/maths_designs.htm
Interactive Whiteboard Research Forum
http://www.ros.org.uk/iwb/index.htm
National Whiteboard Network
http://www.nwnet.org.uk
The REVIEW Project:
http://www.thereviewproject.org
University of Keele Interactive Whiteboard
project
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ed/iaw/
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