Introducing Electronic Voting Systems into the teaching of Mathematics

Across university campuses in the UK and elsewhere around the world academic staff share similar concerns about the nature of contemporary student teaching and learning. These concerns include the fact that class sizes are larger students may appear unmotivated in class and student passivity is perceived to be high. The larger class sizes have made it easier for students to become ‘anonymous’ and it is a challenge for shy students to participate in class by for instance responding verbally to a question.