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The Use of ICT and the Realistic Mathematics Education for Understanding Simple and Advanced Stereometry Shapes Among University Students

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The purpose of this study is to investigate if information and communications technology (ICT) helps to improve the basic and advanced stereometry concepts’ achievement of university students. The study deals with second year undergraduate students from the Department of Civil Engineering at Piraeus University. The sample was divided into two groups. The experimental group consisted of 99 students who were taught about basic (points, line segments, cubes, spheres) and advanced (ellipsoids, cylinders, and cones) concepts of solid stereometry with the support of computers based on Realistic Mathematics Education theory (RME). Also, there were 90 students in the control group which were taught with traditional methodology using a dry-erase board. The results showed that the teaching approaches of our intervention, with the additional use of ICT using the background of the Realistic Mathematics Education, contribute significantly more to the development of university students’ stereometry competence as compared to other traditional methods.

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    Nicholas Zaranis

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Zaranis, N., Exarchakos, G.M. (2018). The Use of ICT and the Realistic Mathematics Education for Understanding Simple and Advanced Stereometry Shapes Among University Students. In: Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Research on e-Learning and ICT in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95059-4_8

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