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A conceptual framework for investigating pupils’ model development during the mathematical modelling process
Citation
Chan, C. M. E., & Foong, P. Y. (2013). A conceptual framework for investigating pupils’ model development during the mathematical modelling process. The Mathematics Educator, 15(1), 1-29. http://math.nie.edu.sg/ame/matheduc/tme/tmeV15_1/1.pdf
Author
Chan, Eric Chun Ming
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Foong, Pui Yee
Abstract
From the perspective of modelling as problem solving, the nature of problem solving experiences is reassessed where students' interpretation of real-world contexts leading to sense-making and meaning construction becomes their solutions to the problem situations. This paper discusses the design of a conceptual framework for investigating pupils’ mathematical modelling process in a problem-based learning setting and reports findings from a case study involving a group of Grade 6 pupils. The framework provides affordances for tracing the modelling process pupils undertake towards exemplifying the key areas of the framework. Through a protocol analysis method, the collaborative discourse of model development of one group of the pupils was summarized as a modelling path. The benefits of the framework are discussed.
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Association of Mathematics Educators
Journal
The Mathematics Educator