Integrating Mobile and Sensory Technologies in Mathematics Education

Abstract

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly important in education both at home and in schools to complement traditional education with new technologies. It is now well established, that the integration of mobile devices in learning environments can enrich students' learning in various ways. However, little attention has been paid to the possibilities of the unique features of mobile devices for context-aware learning in mathematics education. This paper presents the implementation of a system that allows the use of mobile devices' sensors to collect real life data which is connected to the mathematics software tool GeoGebra for visualization and further calculations. Students only need a mobile device where they can experience context-aware mathematics and science learning by interacting with sensory data in different ways.