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Building awareness of mathematical modelling at teacher education: a case study in Indonesia
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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Teaching mathematical modelling : connecting to research and practice, international perspectives on the teaching and learning of mathematical modellingChapter number
50Pagination
583 - 593Publisher
Springer Science & Business MediaPlace of publication
Dordrecht, The NetherlandsISBN-13
9789400765399ISBN-10
9400765398Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapter; B Book chapterCopyright notice
2013, SpringerExtent
52Editor/Contributor(s)
G Stillman, G Kaiser, W Blum, J BrownUsage metrics
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