%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 %2 https://edutice.hal.science/edutice-00001367/document %2 https://edutice.hal.science/edutice-00001367/file/de12th2.pdf %L edutice-00001367 %U https://edutice.hal.science/edutice-00001367 %~ SHS %~ TICE %~ ITEM2003