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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. A Modelling Challenge: Students Modelling Problems of their Choice

Authors : Prof. Dr. Peter Galbraith, Prof. Gloria Stillman, Dr. Jill Brown, Mr. Trevor Redmond

Published in: Evaluierte Lernumgebungen zum Modellieren

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

We describe and illustrate activities in a modelling challenge where secondary students learn and apply modelling techniques to real life problems identified by themselves. A two‐day workshop format designed for this purpose has featured for a number of years as the AB Paterson College Mathematical Modelling Challenge, in Queensland Australia. Within this program, small teams of year 10/11 students identified their own modelling context, articulated specific questions, conducted and reported on their subsequent modelling activity verbally and through poster construction. The chapter describes and illustrates the structure and conduct of the program, including the introduction to modelling provided to the students, content from selected projects, and mentor observations on characteristics and outcomes. Evaluation of the program contains an internal dimension involving assessing the outcomes of student activity in terms of recognised modelling criteria, and an external dimension considering the robustness of the program in terms of its operation across parallel groups with different mentors, and its consistency from year to year in the outcomes produced.

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Metadata
Title
A Modelling Challenge: Students Modelling Problems of their Choice
Authors
Prof. Dr. Peter Galbraith
Prof. Gloria Stillman
Dr. Jill Brown
Mr. Trevor Redmond
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Evaluierte Lernumgebungen zum Modellieren

Print ISBN: 978-3-658-20324-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-20325-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20325-2_10

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