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‘I’m still making dots for them’: mathematics lecturers’ views on their mathematical modelling practices

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posted on 2019-10-14, 11:16 authored by Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Stephanie ThomasStephanie Thomas, Olov Viirman, Yuriy Rogovchenko
Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, we analyse lecturers’ views on the aims and teaching practices of mathematical modelling (MM) education in Norway and England. We aim to expose the tensions that exist within the activity of teaching MM at university, such as those that exist between multiple, sometimes competing, aims for teaching MM, or between the lecturers’ professional identities and the structure of university degrees. Our conceptualisation of these tensions might help lecturers consider how to overcome obstacles in their own contexts.

Funding

Norwegian Centre for Research, Innovation and Coordination of Mathematics Teaching (MatRIC), project number 170874.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology

Volume

52

Issue

2

Pages

165-177

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Taylor and Francis

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology on 25 Sep 2019 , available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2019.1668977

Publication date

2019-09-25

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

0020-739X

eISSN

1464-5211

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Stephanie Thomas

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