THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES ON MATHEMATICS DIDACTICS: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY

The interaction between “information and communication technology” and teachers is neither obvious nor easy, as it involves a challenge in balancing the use of mental, paper-and-pencil and digital tools both in assessment and teaching activities. Through a statistical survey, led simultaneously in highschools of Italy and Spain, we asked both teachers and students about how they would use/use computers and interactive-boards during Mathematics lessons. The second part of the research concerns what students think of the new technologies: how they perceive the use of these tools and how their learning and studies are affected by them. In this paper we will exhibit the outcomes of this survey, obtained by qualitative and quantitative analyses, and we will seek to reach some provisional conclusion, to be tested through future trials, whose guidelines will be outlined. Keywords: Mathematics didactics, Informatics and Communication Technology, Textual analysis