Well-known geometry problems in digital disguise

Abstract

Considering the digital needs of the young generations, we have to involve IT technologies and educational applications in primary education on a much larger scale. Most educational materials made by teachers are simple digitalization of established mathematical problems.
This is understandable, teachers have accumulated a lot of experience over the years about these well-known problems, they know their benefits, pedagogical goal, the way of their usage etc. so they do not have to walk a completely untrodden path. But while the digital versions of these problems may appear the same, there are some unanswered questions emerging from a didactical point of view: does digitalization change the pedagogical goal of the problem? Does it change its development focus, its mathematical content? In this paper we compare the digital and the traditional implementation of four primary school geometric construction problems.