2010 Articles

Slideware Strategies for Mathematics Educators

Stryker, Christian

Programs like PowerPoint and Keynote have become standard tools for teaching. Despite their ubiquity, an increasing number of educators blame them for both a deskilling of teachers and a dumbing down of students. This article examines some of the concerns that surround slideware-assisted teaching and offers guidelines and heuristics concerned mathematics teachers can use to re-energize and re-intellectualize their use of presentation software products. Special emphasis is placed on slideware’s use in the mathematics classroom.