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Prescriptive modelling - mathematics teachers' discussions of the BMI

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The study presented in this paper focuses on primary school teachers engaging with the Body Mass Index (BMI) as part of a university course. The BMI is seen as an example of prescriptive modelling where mathematics is used to keep track of the obesity phenomenon. Four categories are developed to characterize the teachers' discussions: the mathematical aspects of the BMI formula, metavalidation, the consequences of the use of the BMI and other indices in society, as well as on their teachability in the classroom. The results can contribute to developing an understanding of prescriptive modelling processes from a critical perspective.
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hal-03759026 , version 1 (23-08-2022)

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Suela Kacerja, Rune Herheim, Inger Elin Lilland, Toril Eskeland Rangnes. Prescriptive modelling - mathematics teachers' discussions of the BMI. Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Feb 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. ⟨hal-03759026⟩

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