Conclusion on Educational Interfaces Between Mathematics and Industry

Abstract

This conclusion identifies major results and open questions related to the industrial and societal use of mathematics. The main issues raised in this final section are the understanding of mathematics, the difficulties of communication between different communities like the workplace and education, differences in time lines, goals and ways to learn, the roles of boundary objects and black boxes within the interaction in and between these communities and the role of modelling activities in the educational interfaces between mathematics and industry.