PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2014
Denver, Colorado
A Typology of Validating Activity in Mathematical Modeling
Page: 533
Mathematical modeling tasks are used to help students learn mathematics and also to improve their modeling skills. Validating has been identified as the process by which students check and revise their models, but little is known about when or how students choose to do so. This study examined engineering students’ validating activity and characterized it into a typology of different kinds of validating activity satisfying different roles in ensuring accuracy of the model.