Department of Mathematics
Title : The inadvertent algebraist and the spreadsheet: the case of the missing x.
| Speaker: Jac Field Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, UoA Time: 3pm Friday, 31 May, 2013 Location: 301-242, Science Building 301 (second floor Chemistry) |
Abstract
| The use of algebra in spreadsheets, whilst clear to mathematicians, is often invisible to the spreadsheet users themselves. In 2012, I undertook a research project investigating the perceptions and uses of algebra by three people using spreadsheets in their workplaces. What I discovered gave insight not only into the ways in which the use of spreadsheets was influencing the algebraic thought of the users, but also the fact that the nature of the work they were undertaking had a profound impact on the shape of their mathematical thinking. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
