@inbook{7f198562199d4834b3b220c4d7c07207,
title = "Students{\textquoteright} mathematical learning in modelling activities",
abstract = "Ten years of experience with analyses of students{\textquoteright} learning in a modelling course for first year university students, led us to see modelling as a didactical activity with the dual goal of developing students{\textquoteright} modelling competency and enhancing their conceptual learning of mathematical concepts involved. We argue that progress in students{\textquoteright} conceptual learning needs to be conceptualised separately from that of progress in their modelling competency. Findings are that modelling activities open a window to the students{\textquoteright} images of the mathematical concepts involved; that modelling activities can create and help overcome hidden cognitive conflicts in students{\textquoteright} understanding; that reflections within modelling can play an important role for the students{\textquoteright} learning of mathematics. These findings are illustrated with a modelling project concerning the world population.",
author = "Kjeldsen, {Tinne Hoff} and Morten Blomh{\o}j",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-94-007-6539-9",
series = "International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling",
publisher = "Springer Publishing Company",
pages = "141--151",
editor = "Gloria Stillman and Gabriele Kaiser and Werner Blum and Jill Brown",
booktitle = "Teaching Mathematical Modelling:",
address = "United States",
}