RUME 25
2023
Omaha, Nebraska
Identifying Tensions in a Small Group Work on an Open-Ended Modelling Task
Page: 736
We analyze students’ cooperative small group work on an open-ended mathematical modelling task. Introduction of new ideas and techniques challenged traditional students’ views on mathematics and conventional solution routines. This caused tensions in the student activity system pointing towards primary and secondary contradictions. To identify contradictions, their discursive manifestations were used.