MATHEMATICAL MODELLING IN TEACHER EDUCATION - EXPERIENCES FROM A MODELLING SEMINAR

Mathematical Modelling has recently become a compulsory part of the mathematics curriculum in Germany. Hence future teachers must have a strong background about different aspects of modelling and also about appropriate methods how modelling can be taught. That means that the content and the methodology of university courses on modelling have to include all these aspects. In our paper, we will report on university seminars on modelling for students in their fourth year of study. Among other things, the students had to write a “learning diary” over the whole semester. The results give interesting insights in students’ learning processes of modelling, their progress and their problems during the semester and their considerations about teaching modelling.