Approaches to the Spreadsheets Environment: the Case of Preservice Teachers When They Solve Word Problems

Abstract

Some previous researches studied the potentialities of the spreadsheets environment as an environment for solving word problems and the introduction of algebraic concepts like the variable, the unknown and the parameter. The paper discusses the work of pre-service teachers in the spreadsheets environment to solve word problems, their use of the building potentialities and their utilization of the algebraic potentialities of the spreadsheets. It also discusses the role of the user in the various potentialities utilized