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The Role of Textbooks in Developing a Socio-critical Perspective on Mathematical Modelling in Secondary Classrooms

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One approach to teaching using mathematical modelling and applications is to take a socio-critical perspective where the goal is development of a critical understanding of the world through modelling physical and social phenomena. Several curriculum documents in Australia as well as in other countries, with a modelling and applications emphasis, promote socio-critical aspects to be developed by mathematics curricula, particularly at senior secondary level. The role of modern textbook resources in promoting this development and how teachers could use these resources to mediate such a learning goal in relation to the applications of mathematics is an under researched area. This chapter interrogates curriculum documents and textbook tasks to assess the potential role of textbooks in developing this understanding in students through mathematical modelling.

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Acknowledgements

A Faculty of Education, ACU, grant for establishment of the Australasian Mathematical Modelling and Applications Research Interest Group facilitated commencement of this research study.

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  1. Education VIC | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, Australia

    Gloria Ann Stillman

  2. Education VIC | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jill P. Brown

  3. Education ACT | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Canberra, Australia

    Rhonda Faragher

  4. Education QLD | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Vince Geiger

  5. School of Education, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Peter Galbraith

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    Gloria Ann Stillman

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gabriele Kaiser

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Werner Blum

  4. Education VIC | Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jill P. Brown

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Stillman, G.A., Brown, J.P., Faragher, R., Geiger, V., Galbraith, P. (2013). The Role of Textbooks in Developing a Socio-critical Perspective on Mathematical Modelling in Secondary Classrooms. In: Stillman, G., Kaiser, G., Blum, W., Brown, J. (eds) Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice. International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5_30

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