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Timothy H. Lehmann – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Developing students' competence in algorithmic thinking is emerging as an objective of mathematics education, but despite its inclusion in mathematics curricula around the world, research into students' algorithmic thinking seems to be falling behind in this curriculum reform. The aim of this study was to investigate how the mathematical modelling…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Algorithms, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction
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Singh, Mahua – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2021
In 2020, Year 12 students at John Curtin College of the Arts, were required to model COVID-19 data from five different countries in order to find correlations between daily infections and unemployment rates, in order to make future predictions. Work received from students demonstrated how the task successfully provided unique learning…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, High School Students, Grade 12
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Passarella, Simone – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This paper reports on a teaching experiment on mathematical modelling in an upper secondary school class that investigates how the constructs of "model eliciting" and "emergent modelling" may be brought together to inform teaching and learning. A prominent role is covered by the process of task design, seen as a complex process…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction
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Julie, Cyril – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
A widely used instrument was implemented to ascertain the mathematical modelling competency displayed by a cohort of South African learners in grade 10 and grade 12 of the school mathematics programme in South Africa. The cohort comprised 471 grade 10 and 200 grade 12 learners from schools serving learners from low socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Grade 12
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Czocher, Jennifer A.; Moss, Diana L. – Mathematics Teacher, 2017
Why are math modeling problems the source of such frustration for students and teachers? The conceptual understanding that students have when engaging with a math modeling problem varies greatly. They need opportunities to make their own assumptions and design the mathematics to fit these assumptions (CCSSI 2010). Making these assumptions is part…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, High School Students
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Jacobs, Gerrie J.; Durandt, Rina – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This study explores the attitudes of mathematics pre-service teachers, based on their initial exposure to a model-eliciting challenge. The new Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement determines that mathematics students should be able to identify, investigate and solve problems via modelling. The unpreparedness of mathematics teachers in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Inquiry, Mathematics