This section is designed to encourage the sharing of theory, research, and applications of results
from innovative projects that result in the distribution of uses of information technology in
mathematics teacher education along with instruction in preservice, inservice, graduate teacher
education and faculty and staff development. The immediate concern is on teachers and teacher
candidates who have primarily learned mathematics without the use of technologies as tools for
exploring mathematics. However, as Everett Rogers (1995) explains[20], teachers need to
progress through a five-step process in the process of facing the ultimate decision as to whether
to accept or reject a particular innovation for teaching mathematics with technology: