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Difficulties in Teaching Modelling: A French-Spanish Exploration
Richard CabassutIrene Ferrandosubject
Higher educationbusiness.industryeducation05 social sciencesExploratory researchMathematics education050301 education0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesComputer-assisted web interviewingSchool levelbusiness0503 education050104 developmental & child psychologydescription
An exploratory research study based on an online questionnaire in order to better understand difficulties encountered in teaching of mathematical modelling in France and Spain is presented. This questionnaire takes into account biographical variables, mathematics and modelling conceptions of pre-service teachers, teachers, researchers and education inspectors, from primary to tertiary education. Regarding difficulties, heterogeneous conceptions are revealed, and the analysis constructs four clusters, from positive and confident conceptions to negative and lacking confidence. In some cases, the roles of some biographical variables are indicated such as country, age, gender or school level that need to be clarified by future semi-structured interviews in order to offer training and resources in response to the expressed difficulties.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 |