Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework
Yıl: 2019 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 628 - 653 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 İndeks Tarihi: 15-03-2021
Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework
Öz: The main goal of STEM education is to provide students with knowledge and skills in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering through interdisciplinary approaches. However, perspective on the nature of STEM approaches and how it should be implemented in the classrooms without losing discipline integrity are still not uncovered and stay as important challenges for both educators and researchers. In this paper, we introduce a theoretical framework that can shed light on how to engage students effectively in STEM education by providing mathematical modeling as a tool for integrating different disciplines. Thus, this framework is for designing, implementing, and evaluating mathematical modeling thinking within an interdisciplinary nature. Furthermore, we provide an example of the interdisciplinary mathematical modeling task with hypothetical student engagement in the process and analyzed the student's thinking with our framework. Although the focus of this paper is mainly about integrating mathematics and science, we believe that our framework can be applied to all STEM disciplines. We conclude that interdisciplinary mathematical modeling framework might be an important tool to overcome some of the challenges that stressed in the literature since it increases the transfer capacity of STEM-focused knowledge and skills to real-world scenarios by presenting problem situations in a real-world context.
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| APA | Dogan M, R, ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Z, ŞAHİN S (2019). Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework. Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi, 10(3), 628 - 653. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| Chicago | Dogan Muhammed Fatih, Ramazan,ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Zeynep,ŞAHİN Seda Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework. Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi 10, no.3 (2019): 628 - 653. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| MLA | Dogan Muhammed Fatih, Ramazan,ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Zeynep,ŞAHİN Seda Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework. Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi, vol.10, no.3, 2019, ss.628 - 653. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| AMA | Dogan M, R,ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Z,ŞAHİN S Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework. Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi. 2019; 10(3): 628 - 653. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| Vancouver | Dogan M, R,ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Z,ŞAHİN S Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework. Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi. 2019; 10(3): 628 - 653. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| IEEE | Dogan M, R,ÇAVUŞ ERDEM Z,ŞAHİN S "Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework." Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi, 10, ss.628 - 653, 2019. 10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
| ISNAD | Dogan, Muhammed Fatih vd. "Using Mathematical Modeling for Integrating STEM Disciplines: A Theoretical Framework". Türk Bilgisayar ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi 10/3 (2019), 628-653. https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.502007 |
