The ecological relativity of modelling practices: adaptations of an study and research path to different university settings

Berta Barquero (1)

1 University of Barcelona

This paper focuses on the problem of the ecology of mathematical modelling practices at university level through the systematic variation of teaching institutions. Our aim is to deal with the variety of constraints appearing when modelling is implemented in university classrooms, and to study the way new teaching proposals can overcome them. Within the framework of the anthropological theory of the didactic, a teaching and learning proposal in terms of study and research paths in tertiary education shows new possibilities to surmount some of these constraints. The paper presents the design and successive adaptations of an SRP about an urban bike-sharing system according to the specificities of different university institutions and the reactions obtained by the lecturers and students.

Mots clés: ecology; institutional relativity; Modelling; anthropological theory of the didactic; research and study path

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Berta Barquero. The ecological relativity of modelling practices: adaptations of an study and research path to different university settings. INDRUM 2018, INDRUM Network, University of Agder, Apr 2018, Kristiansand, Norway. ⟨hal-01849926⟩