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Authentic Complex Modelling Problems in Mathematics Education

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Currently mathematical modelling has become more and more important at all levels of education. Students as well as teachers are engaged in dealing with real life problems where the mathematical content and the mathematical methods are anything but clear at a first glance. These kinds of problems play a major role in many interdisciplinary activities and provide a successful tool to sensitise students to mathematical issues and have the potential to give students insight into the relevance of mathematics in the real world. Since modelling with students has a long tradition at several German universities, we reflect in this chapter our experiences in conducting modelling activities with students especially at secondary level and describe how these activities were implemented. We elaborate the established approach of dealing with authentic and complex modelling examples and give insight into the evaluation of these activities over the last three years.

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We thank Sarah Mesrogli for the evaluation of the data.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gabriele Kaiser

  2. Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Martin Bracke

  3. School of Business Informatics and Mathematics, University of Mannheim, 68131, Mannheim, Germany

    Simone Göttlich

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 55, 20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Christine Kaland

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  1. Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marn, Créteil Cedex, Val-de-Marne, France

    Alain Damlamian

  2. Universidade de Lisboa/CMAF-FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Francisco Rodrigues

  3. Inst. Didaktik der Mathematik, Universität Gießen FB 12 Mathematik, Gießen, Germany

    Rudolf Sträßer

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Kaiser, G., Bracke, M., Göttlich, S., Kaland, C. (2013). Authentic Complex Modelling Problems in Mathematics Education. In: Damlamian, A., Rodrigues, J., Sträßer, R. (eds) Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry. New ICMI Study Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02270-3_29

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