Abstract:
In NSW, Australia, a new course, General Mathematics, has been introduced for the Higher
School Certificate replacing the two lowest level courses. Twenty-five thousand students
study this course each year. This article reports on a study of 95 General Mathematics
students in six schools where they were asked to comment on their learning preferences.
Many of the benefits of collaborative learning with spreadsheets, were perceived by only a
small number of students in this study, as many students do not envisage benefits of small
group learning or learning with spreadsheets. These results have implications for
mathematics learning.
