%0 Conference Paper
%F Oral
%T The MATCOS project
%+ Università della Calabria [Arcavacata di Rende] (Unical)
%A Costabile, Francesco Aldo
%A Serpe, Annarosa
%< avec comité de lecture
%C Reims, France
%Y Lagrange J.B. & al. (eds)
%8 2003-06
%D 2003
%K Education -- Data processing
%K Information and communications technology
Educational technologies
%K Education
Computer-assisted education
%K Education et informatique
Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationConference papers
%X The MATCOS project was born from an analysis of the results of the National Plan for Information Science- considered by many to be disappointing- and other similar experiments, which in Italy in the 80s-90s had planned for the introduction of computer science (the computer as a means of programming) as part of Maths teaching; it reiterates the soundness of the original proposal, especially as regards the use of programming in learning Maths and underlines the need to:
- accentuate the algorithmic aspect of Maths;
- make available an accessible programming language, in the mother tongue, which is Maths orientated and suitable for the effective logical capabilities of the students.
With reference to the second point, a programming language was constructed entitled MatCos, with the aforementioned characteristics; in fact, it is in the mother tongue (Italian), it retains the classic structure of a programming language, and besides it is Maths orientated, in the sense that it uses commands linked to precise mathematical concepts.
%G French
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%U https://edutice.hal.science/edutice-00001367
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