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Peer tutoring in a modelling course
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SUMMARY
A peer tutoring scheme to support the learning of mathematical models and mathematical modelling is described and evaluated. In the scheme students worked together in self-selected groups on several tasks - to carry out and report on an investigation which required creative mathematical modelling, to investigate certain mathematical models published in the literature and to prepare a seminar for their peers to include written notes, an oral presentation and a poster presentation.
The evaluation suggests that the students who prepared a particular topic understood that topic very ...
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