RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
“Am I Missing Something?”: Learning From Pre-Service Teachers’ Routes Through a Mathematical Modeling Cycle
Page: 1410
Mathematical modeling is a complex and dynamic process that has been studied and represented with multiple modeling cycles (e.g., Bliss et al., 2014; Blum & Ferri, 2009). However, these cycles can oversimplify students’ movements through various phases of the modeling process. As a result, research is needed to explain how students may deviate from the proposed modeling cycles as they work, and the context surrounding these deviations. Therefore, we analyzed pre-service mathematics teachers’ (PSMTs) progression through a high school-level mathematical modeling task using modified Modeling Activity Diagrams (Ärlebäck, 2009), based on the Bliss et al. (2014) modeling cycle. In our poster, we identify common themes to describe the deviations across groups of PSMTs and examine the contexts which elicited the deviations. These insights can be used to help prepare PSMTs to teach mathematical modeling.