This chapter argues for a future-oriented, inclusion of Engineering Model Eliciting Activities (EngMEAs) in elementary mathematics curricula. In EngMEAs, students work with meaningful engineering problems that capitalise on and extend their existing mathematics and science learning, to develop, revise and document powerful models, while working in groups. The models developed by six groups of 12-year students in solving the Natural Gas activity are presented. Results showed that student models adequately solved the problem, although student models did not take into account all the data provided. Student solutions varied to the extent students employed the engineering context in their models and to their understanding of the mathematical concepts involved in the problem. Finally, recommendations for implementing EngMEAs and for further research are discussed.
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Mousoulides, N. G., & English, L. D. (2011). Engineering Model Eliciting Activities for Elementary School Students. In International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling (Vol. 1, pp. 221–230). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0910-2_23
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