RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Pre-Service Teachers Strategic Noticing During Modeling Through Centers of Focus
Page: 276
Mathematical modeling tasks require modelers to consider both real-world conditions and mathematical properties while constructing models that represent the given real-world phenomenon. While the field is matured with research on the processes involved in constructing models, little research has explored what modelers center their focus on (i.e., notice) while solving modeling problems and how those centers of focus inform the strategies for solving modeling tasks. Through analyzing data from two pairs of undergraduate pre-service teachers’ work on modeling tasks, we found three cases in which PSTs’ centers of focus informed their strategies for model construction. In this report, we illustrate two of those cases and discuss implications for research and instruction on modeling.