Pre-service Teachers’ Sense-making of Mathematical Modelling Through a Design-Based Research Strategy

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Abstract

This chapter reports on the sense-making of pre-service teachers in and about mathematical modelling by means of a well-planned design-based research strategy over a period of two iterations. Modelling, and the teaching thereof, is mostly difficult for teachers, but it can be learnt through the development of mathematical, modelling and facilitator competencies of pre-service teachers during their formal education. This study explores how pre-service teachers translate the modelling cycle and develop certain competencies over time through partaking in a series of modelling activities as modellers themselves and as teachers of modelling. Qualitative findings reveal how pre-service teachers improve in their sense-making of the mathematical modelling process, but they disclose some shortcomings that relate to preparing for the teaching of modelling.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages431-441
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
ISSN (Print)2211-4920
ISSN (Electronic)2211-4939

Keywords

  • Design-based research
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Modelling competencies
  • Pre-service mathematics teachers
  • Sense-making
  • Teaching modelling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

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