How to cultivate students to be mastered in mathematical modeling is one of the crucial topics in mathematics education that has been discussed extensively nowadays because mathematical modeling is very useful tools for people to solve problems or to make decisions in their daily life by translating between the real world situations and mathematics in both directions. However, in classroom practice all over the world, mathematical modeling still rarely appears and some educators and instructors believe that mathematical modeling could be performed only in higher education.

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