Educational institutions are faced with the problem of how best to use technology in the instructional process. The challenge is to incorporate appropriate technology based on sound pedagogical methods and professional curricular recommendations. In conclusion, technology presents tremendous challenges as well as exciting opportunities. Mathematics teaching that encourages discovery has not become the accepted norm. Technology permits the teaching of mathematics to change from the firmly planted sequence of the lecture, practice, and test, to a format that will mirror the conditions of the modern workplace.
Technology enables the mathematics classroom to move from the lecture hall to the discovery arena.
Many mathematicians are denying their students opportunities afforded by the appropriate use of technology. This is partly explained by the relative newness of technology, but it is also the result of the tacit satisfaction of the mathematics community to comfortably accept what is already accessible without tackling unanswered technological questions that are difficult and expensive to address. In the final analysis, l believe technology will not only change how mathematics is taught, but it will also change what mathematics is taught. The proper use, not just the availability of technology requires new approaches to teaching mathematics so that students will be active leamers, not just passive spectators.