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A Modelling Challenge: Students Modelling Problems of their Choice

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  1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Prof. Dr. Peter Galbraith

  2. Australian Catholic University, Ballarat, Australia

    Prof. Gloria Stillman

  3. Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

    Dr. Jill Brown

  4. Somerville House School, Brisbane, Australia

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    Stanislaw Schukajlow

  2. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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Galbraith, P., Stillman, G., Brown, J., Redmond, T. (2018). A Modelling Challenge: Students Modelling Problems of their Choice. In: Schukajlow, S., Blum, W. (eds) Evaluierte Lernumgebungen zum Modellieren. Realitätsbezüge im Mathematikunterricht. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20325-2_10

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