Speaker:  Katie Frick, North Dakota State University

Title: Technology and Pre-Service Secondary Geometry Teachers

Abstract: Using technology in high school school classrooms is not 
necessarily something that teachers are accustomed to doing. They 
are usually more concerned about whether the students know how to 
do that math with pencil and paper. But envisioning what they are 
doing or writing about is sometimes hard in an area such as geometry, 
even if the teacher tries their hardest.

In this paper, we investigated why technological programs, such as 
Geometers Sketchpad, should be integrated into every high school math 
classroom. A way to do that is to start the pre-service teachers off 
with the program during their undergraduate career. We will reflect 
on literature and discuss what research has already been done in the 
subject, why this topic is relevant in the high school and 
undergraduate level of learning, what the strength/weaknesses are in 
the research that has already been done and what should be done in the 
future.