Abstract

HALBERSTADT, Fabrício Fernando; SANTAROSA, Maria Cecília Pereira  and  GARCIA, Isabel Krey. AN EXAME OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC MODELING FROM A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020067.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n0id1224.

This paper focuses on how the relationship between scientific and mathematical modeling has been discussed in works published in proceedings of events in the areas of Mathematics Education and Science Education. Assuming that the construction of scientific models generally requires some level of mathematization, it describes the basis, the process and the results of a qualitative bibliographical study aimed at answering this question: How are the topics Scientific Modeling and Mathematical Modeling and their relations addressed in events in the areas of Mathematics Education and Science Education? The corpus of the investigation consisted of the proceedings of the following events: the last two editions of the Paranaense Meeting of Mathematical Modeling - EPMEM, the last Paraense Meeting of Mathematical Modeling – EPAMM, the last National Conference on Modeling in Mathematical Education – CNMEM and the two most recent editions of the National Research Meeting in Science Education - ENPEC. It appears that, in general, the papers on modeling in Mathematical Education analyzed do not aim at building a scientific model itself. Instead, they try to build exclusively a mathematical model. The modeling described in the papers published in the two editions of ENPEC are aimed only at building scientific models. These results show the need for research that can characterize and differentiate each one of these processes and seek interdisciplinary actions that can evince the conceptual relationships between mathematics and science, promoting the advance of learning at all levels of teaching.

Keywords : Mathematical Modeling; Scientific Modeling; Bibliographical research.

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