The NCTM has been very clear in its support of technology to enhance the mathematics classroom, as reflected in the following two statements from the introduction to the Curriculum Standards for School Mathematics (1989):
"The new technology not only has made calculations and graphing easier, it has changed the very nature of problems important to mathematics and the methods mathematicians use to investigate them." (p. 8)
"Access to this technology is no guarantee that any student will become mathematically literate. Calculators and computers for users of mathematics, like word processors for writers, are tools that simplify, but do not accomplish, the work at hand. Thus, our vision of school mathematics is based on the fundamental mathematics students will need, not just on the technological training that will facilitate the use of that mathematics." (p. 8)
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