Mathematical Modelling and Digital Tools —And How a Merger Can Support Students’ Learning

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Mathematical modelling is as most parts of mathematics education affected by the use of digital technologies. In this chapter, we analyse two modelling cases designed with the aim of supporting students’ development of modelling competency and learning content knowledge whilst explicitly drawing on digital tools. One case addresses the notion of vectors at upper secondary level whereas the other case deals with more advanced uses of differential equations at tertiary level. We employ the notion of media-milieu dialectics from the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic, which allows us to study the role played by the digital tool, the modelling problem and other resources available to the students. Based on this analysis, we discuss to what degree the students demonstrate and develop mathematical modelling competency as well as mathematical digital competency, where we refer to the frameworks emerging from Mathematical Competence Theory. Networking these theoretical frameworks allows us to discuss how the merger between mathematical modelling and digital tools can support students learning of mathematical knowledge.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMathematical Competencies in the Digital Era
RedaktørerUffe Thomas Jankvist, Eirini Geraniou
Antal sider20
UdgivelsesstedCham
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2023
Sider99-118
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-031-10140-3, 978-3-031-10143-4
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-031-10141-0
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023
NavnMathematics Education in the Digital Era MEDE
Vol/bind20
ISSN2211-8136

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