Students’ mathematical learning in modelling activities
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Students’ mathematical learning in modelling activities. / Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff; Blomhøj, Morten.
International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. ed. / Gloria Stillman; Gabriele Kaiser; Werner Blum; Jill Brown. New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2013. p. 141-151.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Students’ mathematical learning in modelling activities
AU - Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff
AU - Blomhøj, Morten
N1 - 2013; 12
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Ten years of experience with analyses of students’ learning in a modelling course for first year university students, led us to see modelling as a didactical activity with the dual goal of developing students’ modelling competency and enhancing their conceptual learning of mathematical concepts involved. We argue that progress in students’ conceptual learning needs to be conceptualised separately from that of progress in their modelling competency. Findings are that modelling activities open a window to the students’ images of the mathematical concepts involved; that modelling activities can create and help overcome hidden cognitive conflicts in students’ understanding; that reflections within modelling can play an important role for the students’ learning of mathematics. These findings are illustrated with a modelling project concerning the world population.
AB - Ten years of experience with analyses of students’ learning in a modelling course for first year university students, led us to see modelling as a didactical activity with the dual goal of developing students’ modelling competency and enhancing their conceptual learning of mathematical concepts involved. We argue that progress in students’ conceptual learning needs to be conceptualised separately from that of progress in their modelling competency. Findings are that modelling activities open a window to the students’ images of the mathematical concepts involved; that modelling activities can create and help overcome hidden cognitive conflicts in students’ understanding; that reflections within modelling can play an important role for the students’ learning of mathematics. These findings are illustrated with a modelling project concerning the world population.
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-94-007-6539-9
SP - 141
EP - 151
BT - International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
A2 - Stillman, Gloria
A2 - Kaiser, Gabriele
A2 - Blum, Werner
A2 - Brown, Jill
PB - Springer Publishing Company
CY - New York
ER -
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