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Roan, Elizabeth; Czocher, Jennifer – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Literature typically describes mathematization, the process of transforming a real-world situation into a mathematical model, in terms of desirable actions and behaviors students exhibit. We attended to STEM undergraduate students' quantitative reasoning as they derived equations. Analysis of the meanings they held for arithmetic operations (+, -,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Task Analysis, Mathematical Models, STEM Education
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Sawatzki, Carly; Brown, Jill; Zmood, Simone – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2022
The proposed revisions to the "Australian Curriculum: Mathematics" highlight the importance of learning to mathematise, problem-solve and reason in real world contexts, including financial contexts. Through the Economics + Maths = Financial Capability research project, the authors have been imagining fresh ideas for connecting the…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), National Curriculum, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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Rubin, Richard L. – American Mathematical Monthly, 1979
An approach is described for teaching formulation of mathematical models to undergraduates with no modeling experience. Instruction is based on observation of successful patterns of behavior. (MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Higher Education, Instruction, Learning Activities