Concept and structure of the Hamburg Modeling Days

Abstract

In Germany, there is quite a tradition of modeling projects, carried out by different universities all over Germany. Since 2001, different modeling projects has been conducted by the working group on Didactics of Mathematics of Department of Education of the University of Hamburg. In this paper, the current project, the Hamburg Modeling Days, is described in detail. One goal of this project is to enable students to gain experience in working on modeling problems and to acquire modeling competencies. Furthermore, prospective teachers are supported in their professionalization for teaching mathematical modeling, especially with respect to the supervision of students working on modeling problems. Finally, practicing teachers are in the implementation of modeling problems in mathematics classes.

Keywords

• modeling projects
• modeling competencies
• teaching competencies