Thomas J Fennewald

• Ph.D. Inquiry Methodology
• PostDoc Position at Concordia University

The topic of climate change offers unique challenges to simulation game designers largely because standard game mechanics fail to capture the complexity of this real-world problem. Climate change dynamics are characterized by the second-order delayed effects of carbon emissions on global temperatures and by political actors, who often have unique i...

HIPP Indy is a collaborative effort between the Indiana Department of Correction, the Peace Learning Center, and program facilitators in pursuit of implementing curriculum in peace education, conflict resolution, and self-efficacy with incarcerated, juvenile girls. The Center for Urban and Multicultural Education embarked on a program to partner a...

This paper is the second in a pair that Lesh, English, and Fennewald will be presenting at ICME TSG 19 on Problem Solving in Mathematics Education. The first paper describes three shortcomings of past research on mathematical problem solving. The first shortcoming can be seen in the fact that knowledge has not accumulated – in fact it has atrophied...

Since the 1960s, numerous studies on problem solving have revealed the complexity of the domain and the difficulty in translating research findings into practice. The literature suggests that the impact of problem solving research on the mathematics curriculum has been limited. Furthermore, our accumulation of knowledge on the teaching of problem s...

Many serious games simulate critical issues, such as social justice,ecological sustainability, and economic inequity using collaborative and competitive rules. However, in real life, these situations often are not purely collaborative or competitive. Rather, they may involve many actors who have individual goals but must share social systems and co...

The first half of this book focused on research investigating what it means for students to "understand" modeling processes and models that are important in order for students to be able to use mathematics in real life situations beyond school. This second half shifts attention toward investigations about what is needed for modeling activities to b...

At ICTMA-13, where the chapters in this book were first presented, a variety of views were expressed about an appropriate definition of the term model – and about appropriate ways to think about the nature of modeling activities. So, it is not surprising that some participants would consider this lack of consensus to be a priority problem that shou...