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This chapter focuses on studying the potentialities of interdisciplinary approaches for mathematical modelling. The research presents the design of a teaching sequence based on an archaeological context—the ruins of a Roman theatre discovered in Badalona (Catalonia)—implemented with 12–14-year-old students in their 2015 course. The aim was to promote inquiry and student modelling competences and to investigate how making multiple disciplines interact could enhance modelling and inquiry processes. An initial historical situation involving the students was presented to deal with a problem integrating an interdisciplinary approach. Mathematical modelling appeared as a central tool in the teaching and learning processes. Furthermore, a constant dialectic between mathematics and history was required to facilitate evolution of the modelling process.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the Spanish R&D project EDU2015-64646-P, EDU2015-69865-C3-1-R and REDICE16-1520 (ICE-UB).
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Sala Sebastià, G., Font Moll, V., Giménez Rodríguez, J., Barquero Farràs, B. (2017). Inquiry and Modelling in a Real Archaeological Context. In: Stillman, G., Blum, W., Kaiser, G. (eds) Mathematical Modelling and Applications. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62968-1_28
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