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RESEARCH PAPER
Middle School Students’ Motivation in Solving Modelling Activities With Technology
1
Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, ISRAEL
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An-Najah National University, PALESTINE
Publication date: 2021-08-06
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2021;17(9):em1999
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Researchers pointed at modelling activities as affecting positively students’ learning including
motivation to learn, but little research has studied students’ motivation to learn mathematics
during their engagement in modelling activities with technology. Three groups of 4-5 students
carried out the Roc modelling activity utilizing the internet and GeoGebra. The data was collected
using video recording and students’ solution texts. Inductive and deductive content analysis were
used to analyze the data. The research results indicated that the groups experienced motivational
patterns that included both sympathy and mastery styles, where these styles were accompanied
with confirming styles in general, but sometimes with rebellious styles too. In addition, carrying
out the modelling activity using the internet and GeoGebra, the group members were engaged
primarily with processes-based motivational styles, but doing so, they kept in mind their goal to
build a mathematical model of the Roc bird.
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