A science need: Designing tasks to engage students in modeling complex data

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-130

  Lesh, Richard ^a   Middleton, James A ^a,b   Caylor, Elizabeth ^a   Gupta, Shweta ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data modeling; Mathematical applications; Model eliciting activities; Modeling; Models; Technology; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849103201     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9118-4     Document Type: Article

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