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A case study on mathematical routines in undergraduate biology students’ group-work

Floridona Tetaj
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Olov Viirman
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In this paper, we investigate the mathematical discourse of undergraduate biology students when working on biology tasks. Our data consists of students’ and the lecturer’s discussion when working on two tasks in an Evolutionary Biology course. In our analysis we make use of the commognitive framework and focus on the use of mathematical routines. We observed that although the overall aim of students’ engagement with routines was exploratory, the way they engaged with mathematical routines when working on biology tasks was ritualized. However, students were aware of the need of using construction routines when trying to mathematize a biological phenomenon although the lack of familiarity with relevant construction routines constrained their ability to deal with certain task situations.
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hal-02459913 , version 1 (29-01-2020)

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Floridona Tetaj, Olov Viirman. A case study on mathematical routines in undergraduate biology students’ group-work. Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht University, Feb 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02459913⟩

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