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The Students’ Discussions in the Modeling Environment

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This paper describes a framework to analyse students’ practices from a discursive point of view for mathematical modelling environments. The theoretical notion of interaction spaces is taken as the main analysis unit. Then, the students’ actions are described as modelling routes and parallel discussions. The first is composed over mathematical, technological and reflexive discussions. These notions are presented and brought together to outline the framework.

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    This paper is part of a wider project entitled “Mathematical modelling and the students’ discussions”, carried out by NUPEMM Research Group on Mathematical Modelling. Home: http://www.uefs.br/nupemm. A reviewed version of this paper is published in Portuguese as: Barbosa (2007).

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Acknowledgements

Although they are not responsible for arguments outlined here, I thank my colleagues from NUPEMM Research Group on Mathematical Modelling at the State University of Feira de Santana for comments to the previous versions of this paper. I thank the Research Foundation at the State of Bahia, Brazil (in Portuguese, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia – FAPESB), for financial support to this research project (Number PPP0031/2006).

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  1. State University of Feira De Santana, Feira De Santana, Brazil

    Joneia Cerqueira Barbosa

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  1. School of Education, Indiana University, N. Rose Ave. 201, Bloomington, 47405-1006, USA

    Richard Lesh

  2. Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4074, Australia

    Peter L. Galbraith

  3. Dept. Continuing Education, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom

    Christopher R. Haines

  4. School of Education, University of Utah, Campus Center Drive 1705, Salt Lake City, 84112, USA

    Andrew Hurford

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Barbosa, J.C. (2010). The Students’ Discussions in the Modeling Environment. In: Lesh, R., Galbraith, P., Haines, C., Hurford, A. (eds) Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0561-1_31

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