Overview
- provides timely and cutting edge research crossing traditional boundaries
- offers unique and contemporary perspectives synthesized into important, practical strands
- documents mathematical achievements necessary for transforming society.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (53 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Nature of Models & Modeling
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Where Are Models & Modelers Found?
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What Do Modeling Processes Look Like?
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Keywords
- Directions for the Future
- Modeling and Design
- Modeling and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
- Modeling and Teacher Development
- Modeling in Engineering
- Modeling in High School and College
- Modeling in Middle Schools
- Modeling in Primary Grades
- Modeling vs. Traditional Problem Solving
- Research and Assessment Methodologies
- Technological Tools and Data Modeling
- education
- educational research
- mathematics
About this book
As we enter the 21st century, there is an urgent need for new approaches to mathematics education emphasizing its relevance in young learners’ futures. Modeling Students’ Mathematical Modeling Competencies explores the vital trend toward using real-world problems as a basis for teaching mathematics skills, competencies, and applications. Blending theoretical constructs and practical considerations, the book presents papers from the latest conference of the ICTMA, beginning with the basics (Why are models necessary? Where can we find them?) and moving through intricate concepts of how students perceive math, how instructors teach—and how both can become better learners. Dispatches as varied as classroom case studies, analyses of math in engineering work, and an in-depth review of modeling-based curricula in the Netherlands illustrate modeling activities on the job, methods of overcoming math resistance, and the movement toward replicable models and lifelong engagement.
A sampling of topics covered:
- How students recognize the usefulness of mathematics
- Creating the modeling-oriented classroom
- Assessing and evaluating students’ modeling capabilities
- The relationship between modeling and problem-solving
- Instructor methods for developing their own models of modeling
- New technologies for modeling in the classroom
Modeling Students’ Mathematical Modeling Competencies offers welcome clarity and focus to the international research and professional community in mathematics, science, and engineering education, as well as those involved in the sciences of teaching and learning these subjects.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies
Book Subtitle: ICTMA 13
Editors: Richard Lesh, Peter L. Galbraith, Christopher R. Haines, Andrew Hurford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0561-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0560-4Published: 22 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8389-3Published: 02 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0561-1Published: 15 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 650
Topics: Mathematics Education, Mathematics, general, Science Education