New ways of learning mathematics: are we ready for it?

Abstract

In this paper, we report on a research project in progress in which we are attempting to establish and maintain an ICT-mediated math knowledge-building community. The paper first identifies why math knowledge-building communities are very difficult to establish and maintain and then provides evidence to support that these difficulties can be overcome by the inclusion of model-eliciting problems and new iconic math representation tools into the computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment.