"This foundational text shows teachers how to engage middle grade students by inviting them to design inquiry projects that relate to their everyday lives. Students use mathematical modeling to describe or summarize a phenomenon, predict which potential solutions may be successful, and/or to test actual performance against predictions"--

Reagan Curtis is a Chester E. and Helen B. Derrick Endowed Professor of educational psychology in the School of Education and founding director of the Program Evaluation and Research Center at West Virginia University. Darran R. Cairns is faculty in the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Johnna J. Bolyard is an associate professor of mathematics education in the School of Education at West Virginia University.