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Reports on teaching applications and modelling in eight countries dealt with similar arguments regarding obstacles, each with a different emphasis. The following four obstacles are seem to be common across eight countries in which applications and modelling are located within the national curriculum; “Teachers’ perceptions of mathematics”, “Teachers’ understanding of modelling”, “A lack of adequate textbooks and curricular modelling tasks”, “A lack of adequate assessment, and of modelling tasks in central examinations”.
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Ikeda, T. (2007). Possibilities for, and Obstacles to Teaching Applications and Modelling in the Lower Secondary Levels. In: Blum, W., Galbraith, P.L., Henn, HW., Niss, M. (eds) Modelling and Applications in Mathematics Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29822-1_51
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