PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Vol 2)
2013
Denver, Colorado
A Modern Look at the Cell Problem
Page: 2-475
A models & modeling theoretical perspective has been suggested to supersede both con- structvism (Lesh, Doerr, Carmona, & Hjalmarson, 2003) and problem-solving paradigms (Zawojewski, 2007). This is important to the RUME community because many of our foun- dational works are rooted in theoretical and methodological perspectives derived from these paradigms. In the case of problem solving and modeling, it is important to re-view the problem-solving research settings with a mathematical modeling lens. Without this glance backwards we cannot connect new ideas to old knowledge and we should not supplant a theory without ensuring the next can account for existing observations. The objective of this paper is to revisit a well-known problem setting to explore alternative interpretations of students’ mathematical work.