Potential Capacities and Obstacles of Using " Application and Modeling Approach" in Tertiary Mathematics Education

In this paper necessity of consideration of “application and modeling approach” in tertiary mathematics education will be introduced. After that history and different cycle of modeling in mathematics education will be explained. In the following, researches which carried on “application and modeling approach” in tertiary level will be reviewed. Then methodological details related to using this approach in teaching a tertiary level mathematics courses will be elaborated. In this regard, a modeling eliciting activity introduced to 39 engineer students and their strategies for solving this problem investigated upon seven steps modeling cycle. Finally, after introducing some of students’ answers to this real world problem and a typical correct answer, potential capacities and obstacles of using “application and modeling approach” in tertiary mathematics education will be discussed.