On the influence of knowledge about the ideal-typical modelling processes on individuals’ modelling routes
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https://doi.org/10.48489/quadrante.23719Keywords:
individual modelling routes, structure of modelling processes, MAI-Tool, knowledge about modelling proccessesAbstract
Working on mathematical modelling tasks is challenging for students. Several studies have shown that knowledge of mathematical modelling on a meta-level has a positive effect on the modelling process. Nevertheless, students mostly do not knowingly and consciously use solution strategies when working on modelling tasks. Within the framework of our study, we investigated whether and to what extent knowledge about ideal-typical modelling processes has an effect on the structure of the solution processes of individuals. Individuals acquired this knowledge in our study in the form of an instruction that includes information about the modelling process, e.g., the modelling cycle and a solution plan. In this article, the structure of individual modelling routes of students who have received an instruction about modelling processes are compared with those students without such an instruction. The data in the study was collected, presented, and analysed using the Modelling-Activity-Interaction-Tool (MAI-Tool), which is also presented here. The MAI-Tool is a newly developed instrument based on quantitative methods to capture and analyse structures and patterns of modelling processes in more detail than with previously known methods.
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