video display device, students' understanding of mathematical concepts as well as their problem-solving skills can be increased.
Further, this form of hypermedia instruction in math is said to free students of the routine drudgery of rote computations. Of this freedom, the authors state:
As calculators and computers diminish the role of routine computation, school mathematics can focus instead on the conceptual insights and analytic skills that have always been at the heart of mathematics. (Hancock & Betts, 1994, pp. 24-25)
In other words, hypermedia is being used to allow teachers to more effectively teach mathematics and to allow students to more fully focus upon the crucial concepts that need to be understood in order to do mathematics.
The objective of teaching students not only information but also how to learn (learning to learn) has been a goal of educators for several decades. There is reason to believe that hypermedia may foster this goal. For example, Beichner (1994) states that at the junior high sch
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