Teaching Operations Research Before University: A Focus on Grades 9–12

Raffaele, Alice; Gobbi, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/s43069-021-00054-3

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“…Initiatives to introduce quantitative topics to younger students are discussed in [31]. An early introduction to can increase students' interest and motivation towards OR and mathematics.…”

Section: Challenges To Teaching Ba and Or To Business Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analytics Modules for Business Students

Carroll

2023

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Data Science is a relatively new requirement for business students. Historically many business students shied away from business statistics and quantitative or Operational Research (OR) modules believing them to be boring and irrelevant. The high profile use of analytics and modelling during the Covid pandemic has drawn awareness to the relevance of analytics. Greater availability of data and modelling tools afford business students an opportunity to re-engage with Operational Research and Analytics and to enjoy the satisfaction of modelling and solving real world problems, but the challenge of the mathematical modelling skills gap of business students remains. In this paper we describe a learning pathway of modules in business analytics that can enhance business students’ confidence and capabilities in performing statistical and analytical business tasks. We recommend modelling tools and incremental innovative mathematical modelling teaching approaches that are pedagogically sound and suitable for business students with varying quantitative backgrounds.

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“…Initiatives to introduce quantitative topics to younger students are discussed in [31]. An early introduction to can increase students' interest and motivation towards OR and mathematics.…”

Section: Challenges To Teaching Ba and Or To Business Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analytics Modules for Business Students

Carroll

2023

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“…Malucelli and Fantinati [30] illustrates an optimization experience in an elementary school. Experiences of optimization problems tackled in medium schools and in high schools are surveyed in [31]. We started with the example of the oldest documented optimization problem: the founding of Carthage, i.e., the problem of enclosing in a fixed perimeter the maximum possible area.…”

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Perspective Chapter: Teaching Intuition and Creativity - An Interdisciplinary and Playful Approach

Fornasiero¹,

Malucelli²,

Sateriale³

2022

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The students attending the Italian technical and vocational high schools have often a critical behavior towards the classes of Mathematics and Italian. They usually believe that these disciplines are sterile and marginal with respect to their main interests that rely on subjects characterizing their professional choice. We made some experiments intended to wake up the interest and reactivate the lost creativity in these two disciplines. We report on an interdisciplinary experience in the first-year class of a technical high school where we introduced a series of games in the classes of Mathematics and Italian, with the intent of stimulating creativity and empowering the students. In Maths, we applied the puzzle-based learning technique. In Italian, we used the creative writing technique. Despite the limited time devoted to this experience, the outcomes have been extremely positive.

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“…Moreover, other local actions have been made in these years, more focused on the problemsolving skills and its connection with operations research. For the sake of the brevity, we address the interested reader to the work by Raffaele and Gobbi (2021). However, most of these initiatives are more focused on "teaching mathematics for problem-solving" rather than "teaching mathematics through problem solving".…”

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OPS4Math project - Optimization and Problem Solving for Teaching of Mathematics: teaching strategy, organization and objectives

Sterle

Boccia

Masone

et al. 2022

8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22)

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Several initiatives have been implemented worldwide to foster student interest towards STEM disciplines. These initiatives are based on the awareness that mathematics is essential for scientific and technological advancement: it trains to reasoning and reflection, stimulates logical capabilities and intuition, improve investigation attitude. Most of them recognize also that mathematical problem solving represents an effective way to support teachers and students in their teaching and learning activities, respectively. In this context, this work is aimed at presenting OPS4Math (Optimization and Problem Solving for Teaching of Mathematics), a training project for Secondary School teachers, supported by Italian Ministry of University and Research. The driving idea, widely discussed by the scientific community, is to operate a reversal of the didactical perspective: starting from phenomena/problems to introduce concepts of data, variables, relationships and functions in an appealing way. We present project organization, structure and aims, to give useful hints for its replication.

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Teaching Operations Research Before University: A Focus on Grades 9–12

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

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Analytics Modules for Business Students

Perspective Chapter: Teaching Intuition and Creativity - An Interdisciplinary and Playful Approach

OPS4Math project - Optimization and Problem Solving for Teaching of Mathematics: teaching strategy, organization and objectives

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