Deduction in Education: the Case of Serbia

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is to provide insight into the current state of education in Serbia regarding the use of educational aspects of software re-lated to deduction, geometry and mathematical reasoning. Authors investigate to what extent and for what purposes teachers and students use such software. The consideration of the current state is substantiated by the examples of teaching practices at different school levels, and supplemented by the proposals which tend to contribute to deeper understanding of the topic. The most commonly used automatic deduction and calculation programs in Serbian education are GeoGebra, Photomath, Microsoft Math Solver, Desmos, and Wolfram Alpha. These mathematical software represent an advantageous topic for cross-curricular connection in schools which could be realized in many different ways. It is suggested in the context of connecting mathematics and physics to art, history of science, national history of science, philosophy, logic and psychology.