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P30: Researching whether the use of ICT in reception motivates and promotes children's learning in numeracy
Author: Caroline Percival, Teaching Assistant, Hartside Primary School, Durham
Date: 2005

Caroline investigated the pupils' perceptions of using ICT in numeracy. She compared the teaching of three different topics, taught once with the use of ICT, and once without. She evaluated the children's views on the use of ICT by means of a simple questionnaire that included a range of suggested answers from which they could choose. The children's preferences for ICT or non-ICT equipment varied between different activities, and were randomly spread across different ability levels and genders. It was difficult to draw any conclusions about the children's preferences from the data collected. Caroline also asked two teachers about their perceptions of the children's learning with ICT, both of whom believed that it was a major motivating factor.

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