Identifying Modelling Tasks

• Main Author: Meier, Stefanie
• Other Authors: HTW Dresden, Informatik, Mathematik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2012
• Subjects: Modellieren; Modellierungskreislauf; Modellierungsaufgabe; Comenius Netzwerk; Deskriptoren für Modellierungsaufgaben; Modelling; Modelling circle; Modelling task; Comenius Network; Descriptors for modelling tasks; ddc:510; rvk:SD 2009
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80629; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80629; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/8062/Proceedings-636pages-Dresden2009_399-403.pdf

The Comenius Network Project “Developing Quality in Mathematics Education II” funded by the European Commission consists of partners from schools, universities and teacher training centres from eleven European countries. One advantage of the project is the mutual exchange between teachers, teacher trainers and researchers in developing learning material. To support the teachers most effectively the researchers asked the teachers what they wanted the researchers to do. The answer was also a question: How can we identify (good) modelling tasks? A discussion ensued in the research group of this project which resulted in a list of descriptors characterising modelling tasks. This paper focuses on the theoretical background of mathematical modelling and will thereby substantiate the list of descriptors for modelling tasks.