Fostering process related skills in mathematics though educational technology in elementary schools

The Teaching in elementary school is mostly based on paper-pencil approaches and does not yet rely primary on educational technologies. But educational technology has found its way into the elementary schools, this based on various numbers of governmental initiatives launched during the last years in Luxemburg. The aims of these initiatives were to support students in mathematics and foremost render improvements on both skill settings, content and process. However using educational technology in mathematics does not jointly mean teaching and learning process skills. There are many different types of educational technology in mathematics, from tutoring systems to dynamic mathematical software and drill and practice software, only to name those as examples. We want to identify educational technologies and methodologies which are most likely to foster process skills (problem solving, modeling, argumenting, representing and communicating) in mathematics. Therefore we would work on a set of educational technologies offered to the students in elementary school in Luxemburg and evaluate their impacts on the fostering of process skills in mathematics.