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A Case Study of Tensions and Challenges Arising as a Swedish Upper Secondary Teacher Designs and Implements a Model Development Sequence on Statistics

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A study of an upper secondary teacher trying to transform her teaching by designing and implementing a model development sequence on statistics in a grade 11 mathematics class in Sweden is presented. Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) is used to analyse lesson plans, reflection notes, recordings from planning meetings, and student data to identify tensions and challenges arising as she tried to adopt this new perspective on teaching and learning mathematics. The results illustrate the need to renegotiate appropriate classroom norms and facilitate shifts in power, ownership, and responsibilities in the mathematics classroom if a modelling approach is to effectively impact and change the teaching and learning of mathematics using mathematical modelling.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Jonas Bergman Ärlebäck

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  1. Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, VIC, Australia

    Gloria Ann Stillman

  2. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Christine Erna Lampen

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gabriele Kaiser

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Ärlebäck, J.B. (2020). A Case Study of Tensions and Challenges Arising as a Swedish Upper Secondary Teacher Designs and Implements a Model Development Sequence on Statistics. In: Stillman, G.A., Kaiser, G., Lampen, C.E. (eds) Mathematical Modelling Education and Sense-making. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37673-4_13

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