Building awareness of mathematical modelling at teacher education: a case study in Indonesia
Contribuinte(s) |
Stillman, Gloria Ann Kaiser, Gabriele Blum, Werner Brown, Jill |
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Data(s) |
01/01/2013
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Resumo |
A growing interest to teach mathematics closely connected to its use in daily life has taken place in Indonesia for over a decade (Sembiring, Hadi, and Dolk 2008). This chapter reports an exploratory case study of the building of an awareness of mathematical modelling in teacher education in Indonesia. A modelling task, re-designing a parking lot (Ang 2009), was assigned to groups of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers. All groups undertook the stages of collecting data on a parking lot, identifying limitations in the current design of the parking lot, and proposing a new design based on their observations and analyses. The nature of the mathematical models elicited by pre-service teachers during various stages of completing the modelling task will be examined. Implications of this study suggest the need to encourage pre-service teachers to state the assumptions and real-world considerations and link them to the mathematical model in order to validate their models. |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Springer Science & Business Media |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30050786/widjaja-buildingawareness-2013.pdf http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30050786/widjaja-buildingawareness-pre-2013.pdf |
Direitos |
2013, Springer |
Palavras-Chave | #preservice teachers #real world contexts #parking capacity #teacher education #modelling competencies |
Tipo |
Book Chapter |