Investigating Pre-service Teachers’ Experiences with the “A4 Paper Format” Modelling Task

Abstract

Our research question asks what kinds of educational effects are gained for a group of pre-service mathematics teachersTeachers when we address the A4 paper format task from the perspective that mathematical modellingMathematical modelling can be used to enrich students’ knowledge both in the real world and in mathematics. Around 60% of the pre-service teachersTeachers perceived that they could enrich their knowledge both in the real world and in mathematics, while around 30% were able to anticipate connections to their actual teaching in future. This suggests that pre-serviceTeachersteachersPre-service teacher are able to appreciate these dual aims of modelling, that is, modelling can not o..