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NCTM's "Technology Principle" challenges mathematics teachers to rethink the mathematics they teach, investigate technological tools for learning mathematics, and consider how they can support students in learning mathematics with technology as a tool. In concert with the NCTM's emphasis on using technology as a tool in mathematics, ISTE's NETS for Students identifies the importance of students learning to use technology as productivity, communication, research, problem-solving, and decision-making tools. This challenge, however, carries with it the requirement that students learn the basic operations and concepts of technology. Thus, more and more, mathematics teachers must redesign their curriculum and instruction to help students learn about the technology they will use to learn mathematics. A spreadsheet is one of these tools. Math teachers are challenged to think about scaffolding students learning about spreadsheets while they are also learning mathematics. This learning can begin at least by middle school (if not earlier).

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert