Modeling with complex data in the primary school

Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies: ICTMA 13

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 287-299

  English, Lyn D ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Authentic context; Complex system; Games; ICMI; Mathematical modeling; Mathematics curriculum; Mathematization; Teaching experiments; Word problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884624885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0561-1_25     Document Type: Chapter

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