The Sherpa-student role with a graphics calculator: Empowering or disempowering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Faculty

Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences

School

School of Education

RAS ID

929

Comments

MERGA25:Mathematics Education in the South Pacific (Vol 1 & Vol 2). Auckland, New Zealand.

Abstract

This paper explores student empowerment in the context of graphics calculator usage. The setting is revision and a student has her calculator attached to an overhead projection panel, hence the Sherpa-student role. She is working according to the teacher's instruction. Problematically, she lags the teacher's instruction and another student pre-empts her answers. In addition, the teacher uses tripartite questioning which can mediate against student empowerment, but a mitigating factor is students disrupt the questioning repeatedly. Use of the overhead panel and the conditions that worked towards and against student empowerment are discussed in the paper.

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