How Does Validating Activity Contribute to the Modeling Process?

Autor/in	Czocher, Jennifer A.
Titel	How Does Validating Activity Contribute to the Modeling Process?
Quelle	In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 99 (2018) 2, S.137-159 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1954
DOI	10.1007/s10649-018-9833-4
Schlagwörter	Mathematical Models; Prediction; Engineering Education; Undergraduate Students; College Mathematics; Problem Solving + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematical model; Mathematisches Modell; Vorhersage; Ingenieurausbildung; Problemlösen
Abstract	Contemporary scholars describe mathematical modeling as a transformation of a real-world problem to a mathematical problem and back again. This paper treats a critical issue in the modeling process: how modelers determine if the transformation from the real world to mathematics was carried out well. I present an empirically derived typology of validating activities explaining how validating functions to ensure a mathematical model will yield a reasonably accurate prediction. The typology arose from analysis of four engineering undergraduates' production of 276 instances of validating. The nuances of validating suggest that creating and maintaining relationships between reality and mathematics is more complex than a transformation and that we should afford a more prominent role to validation in the modeling process. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01