The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between specific technology-based activities and students’ motivation in math. Students in grades 5 to 8 participated in a four-day classroom-based experience, beginning with a one-day technology activity, followed by a two-day mathematics lesson on algebraic reasoning, and concluding with revisiting the same technology induction on the final day. Students were assigned to one of three different types of technology inductions (as described above), each representing a different motivational framework. An assessment that targeted motivation was administered before, immediately after, and two months after the intervention.