RITWIT Conference Abstract Submission Title of presentation: USE OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN HUNGARY Type of presentation: Short Standard Video

The appearance of the interactive whiteboard in the Hungarian primary and secondary schools has got a new impetus in the last two years, due to The National Development Plan, whose aim was to install interactive boards in 42,000 classrooms by 2010. The appearance of the new device made teachers face new tasks concerning the use of the interactive whiteboard, and prompted them to form an all new teaching method and curriculum. There is not only a need for teacher training, but also to reform the curriculum itself. School publishers and companies of subject development are already working in these areas to create new schemes. The diversity of types of interactive whiteboard and the different software programs they are bundled with makes the educator's work fairly difficult. The use of interactive boards and different informatic devices in many schools is common, runs smoothly and there is more and more digital curriculum available for teaching practices. In my presentation I will talk about the use of interactive boards in the schools of Debrecen (Hungary's second largest city), their current impact, the educators' opinion concerning the appearance of the new technologies and the children's reactions to an interactive lesson. I will present my research results regarding teaching mathematics with the interactive whiteboard in primary and secondary schools. X