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Mathematical Modelling in Teacher Education — Necessity or Unnecessarily

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Although mathematical modelling provides excellent opportunities to teach and learn mathematics, many departments of mathematics hesitate to develop and teach courses in mathematical modelling. I build this statement on a survey I did, in which I was communicating the obstacles and possibilities in mathematical modelling, with all different departments of mathematics and/or mathematics education in Sweden.

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  1. University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Thomas Lingefjärd

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  1. University of Kassel, Germany

    Werner Blum

  2. The University of Queensland, Australia

    Peter L. Galbraith

  3. University of Dortmund, Germany

    Hans-Wolfgang Henn

  4. Roskilde University, Denmark

    Mogens Niss

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Lingefjärd, T. (2007). Mathematical Modelling in Teacher Education — Necessity or Unnecessarily. In: Blum, W., Galbraith, P.L., Henn, HW., Niss, M. (eds) Modelling and Applications in Mathematics Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29822-1_35

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