Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
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Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education


Volume
& Issue

Volume 5, Issue 2


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Pages

66-88


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Article

Matematik Öğretmeni Adaylarının Modelleme Sürecinde Kullandıkları Gösterim Şekilleri


Authors

Aytuğ Özaltun Affiliation:
Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi
, Çağlar Naci Hıdıroğlu Affiliation:
Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi
, Semiha Kula Affiliation:
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Buca Eğitim Fakültesi
and Esra Bukova Güzel Affiliation:
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Buca Eğitim Fakültesi


Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine representations used by mathematics student teachers in steps of mathematical modeling process based on their solutions of problems formed in the context of different classification of modeling. The study was conducted with fifteen secondary mathematics student teachers given a Mathematical Modeling course. The participants were separated into five collaboration groups of three students. Data were collected with the detailed written papers given by the groups for the problems and GeoGebra solution files. The groups benefited from verbal, algebraic, figural, tabular and dynamic representations while they were solving the problems. Considering all steps of the process, groups at most used verbal and algebraic representations. While they used only verbal representation in analyzing the problem, they benefited from at most verbal representation and then figural representation in establishing the systematic structure. The most used is algebraic and then verbal representations in the steps of mathematization, meta-mathematization, and mathematical analysis. In the steps of interpretation/evaluation and the model verification, the groups mainly benefited from verbal and then algebraic representations. Further researches towards why representations are preferred in the specific steps of the mathematical modeling process are suggested.


Keywords

Mathematical modeling, modeling problems, mathematics student teachers, representations


Citation

Özaltun, A., Hıdıroğlu, Ç. N., Kula, S., & Güzel, E. B. (2013). Matematik öğretmeni adaylarının modelleme sürecinde kullandıkları gösterim şekilleri. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 5(2), 66–88.

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