Modelling Competency: Teaching, Learning and Assessing Competencies – Overview

Abstract

This chapter frames eight papers which are all addressing questions and issues related to the teaching, learning and assessing of mathematical modelling competency. As a main commonality in the papers, the authors take point of departure in the existence of (such a thing as) mathematical modelling competency (as a concept). A competency in general is understood as a person’s mental capacity to cope with a certain type of challenge in a knowledgeable and reflective way. According to this, a person possesses mathematical modelling competency if he or she is capable of carrying through a mathematical modelling process in order to solve a problem or to understand a situation within a certain domain.