1. Contributions of Mathematical Modelling in Education of Youth and Adults
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Taise Sousa Santana, Carlos Henrique Carneiro, and Jonson Ney Dias da Silva
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Class (computer programming) ,Adult education ,Pedagogy ,ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Mathematics education ,Student learning ,Psychology - Abstract
This chapter discusses a case study in Education of Youth and Adults that attempts to capture critical pedagogical practices in a multi-disciplinary approach to improving student learning. The aim was to show possible contributions of a mathematical modelling environment for using mathematics to understand phenomena in other knowledge areas, including students’ prior knowledge and everyday experiences. A class of youth and adults who were part of a project of Youth and Adult Education in a state college in Brazil participated. Student involvement in the activity as well as their difficulties in interpreting the information mathematically in order to solve the questions posed were observed. The teacher acted as a mediator between the real situation and the mathematical objects used in mathematising to facilitate students refining their mathematisations.
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- 2015
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