On the role of computers and complementary situations for gendering in mathematics classrooms

My study is about the (de)gendering effects of computers on mathematical teaching and learning. I approach the issue by directing attention to the possible intertwining of participants’ relationships to mathematics or computers with their relationships to gender in classroom interaction. According to my analysis, the constitution of gender-neutral relationships to mathematics and computers is subtly interspersed with gendered forms. They emerge from certain conducive situations, and are about mathematically unspecific program manipulations. Thus, findings do not indicate the further gendering of mathematics but the gendering of technology. However, computer algebra systems (CAS) seem to minimize the effects.