Simple spreadsheet modeling by first-year business undergraduate students: Difficulties in the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model
Апстракт
The study used a sample of first-year business undergraduate students
who developed simple (deterministic & non-optimization) models with
Microsoft Excel. The students were required to choose business of their choice
and give recommendations to have it profitable or more profitable. To help them
achieve this end, the teacher presented to the students his solution regarding a
taxi business within a local area, having previously explained to the students
various ways to do “what-if” analyses. By referring to the framework of
Galbraith and Stillman (2006), this paper mainly presents some of frequent
modelers’ difficulties regarding the transition from real world problem statement
to mathematical model. These difficulties deal with selecting variables,
initializing variables, and relating variables. Possible reasons for such difficulties
and suggestions for further research are included.
Извор:
Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education, 2009, 241-248Издавач:
- Roskilde University, Denmark: Department of Science, Systems and Models
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Projects 144032D and 144050A funded by the Serbian Ministry of Science
Напомена:
- Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education, Mexico, July 6-13, 2008
Институција/група
IPITY - CONF AU - Kadijević, Đorđe PY - 2009 UR - http://ipir.ipisr.org.rs/handle/123456789/1038 AB - The study used a sample of first-year business undergraduate students who developed simple (deterministic & non-optimization) models with Microsoft Excel. The students were required to choose business of their choice and give recommendations to have it profitable or more profitable. To help them achieve this end, the teacher presented to the students his solution regarding a taxi business within a local area, having previously explained to the students various ways to do “what-if” analyses. By referring to the framework of Galbraith and Stillman (2006), this paper mainly presents some of frequent modelers’ difficulties regarding the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model. These difficulties deal with selecting variables, initializing variables, and relating variables. Possible reasons for such difficulties and suggestions for further research are included. PB - Roskilde University, Denmark: Department of Science, Systems and Models C3 - Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education T1 - Simple spreadsheet modeling by first-year business undergraduate students: Difficulties in the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model EP - 248 SP - 241 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_ipir_1038 ER -
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Kadijević, Đ.. (2009). Simple spreadsheet modeling by first-year business undergraduate students: Difficulties in the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model. in Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education Roskilde University, Denmark: Department of Science, Systems and Models., 241-248. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_ipir_1038
Kadijević Đ. Simple spreadsheet modeling by first-year business undergraduate students: Difficulties in the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model. in Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education. 2009;:241-248. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_ipir_1038 .
Kadijević, Đorđe, "Simple spreadsheet modeling by first-year business undergraduate students: Difficulties in the transition from real world problem statement to mathematical model" in Mathematical applications and modeling in the teaching and learning of mathematics: Proceedings from Topic Group 21 at the 11th International congress on mathematical education (2009):241-248, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_ipir_1038 .