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Building Awareness of Mathematical Modelling in Teacher Education: A Case Study in Indonesia

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Interest to teach mathematics closely connected to its use in daily life has grown in Indonesia for over the last decade (Sembiring RK, Hadi S, Dolk M, ZDM – Int J Math Educ 40(6):927–939, 2008). This chapter reports an exploratory case study of the building of an awareness of mathematical modelling in teacher education in Indonesia. A modelling task, Re-designing a Parking Lot (Ang KC, Mathematical modelling in the secondary and junior college classroom. Prentice Hall, Singapore, 2009), was assigned to groups of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers. All groups collected data on a parking lot, identified limitations in the current design, and proposed a new design based on observations and analyses. The nature of the mathematical models elicited during the modelling task were examined. Implications of this study suggest a need to encourage pre-service teachers to state assumptions and real-world considerations and link them to the mathematical model in order to validate if the model is appropriate and useful.

The study reported in this chapter was conducted in Universitas Sanata Dharma Indonesia, the author’s former affiliated institution.

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The author thanks the pre-service teachers from Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia for their support. Contribution of the National Institute of Education Singapore in supporting the author to present a related short paper with early findings at ICTMA 15 Conference in Melbourne is acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Mathematics Education, School of Education, Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne, VIC, 3125, Australia

    Wanty Widjaja

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  1. Education VIC | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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  2. Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gabriele Kaiser

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Werner Blum

  4. Education VIC | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jill P. Brown

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Widjaja, W. (2013). Building Awareness of Mathematical Modelling in Teacher Education: A Case Study in Indonesia. In: Stillman, G., Kaiser, G., Blum, W., Brown, J. (eds) Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5_50

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