Functions: a modelling tool in mathematics and science.

Autor/in	Michelsen, Claus
Titel	Functions: a modelling tool in mathematics and science.
Quelle	In: Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik. Berichtsteil, 38 (2006) 3, S. 269-280 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-4103; 1615-679X
DOI	10.1007/BF02652810
Schlagwörter	Angewandte Mathematik; Funktion (Math); Mathematikunterricht; Mathematisches Modell; Naturwissenschaften
Abstract	It is difficult for the students to transfer concepts, ideas and procedures learned in mathematics to a new and unanticipated situation in science. An alternative to this traditional transfer method stresses the importance of modelling activities in an interdisciplinary context between mathematics and science. In the paper we introduce a modelling approach to the concept of function in upper secondary school is introduced. We discuss pedagogical and didactical issues concerning the interplay between mathematics and science. The discussion is crystallized into a didactical model for interdisciplinary instruction in mathematics and science. The model is considered as an iterative movement with two phases: (1) the horizontal linking of the subjects: Situations from science are embedded in contexts which are mathematized by the students, (2) the vertical structuring in the subjects: The conceptual anchoring of the students' constructs from the horizontal linking in the systematic and framework of mathematics and science respectively. (orig.).
Erfasst von	FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur
Update	2007/2