In the following section, some students’ approaches for this problem will be presented.
The approaches were developed and presented by students during the described modelling week.
Hereby an impression of the quality and complexity of real students’ approaches within the project can be given to clarify the content-related dimension of the working processes during the modelling week.
Therefore, the aim of this section is not an explicit description of one complete sample solution2 or the description of one especially good solution developed by a group of outstanding students.
The following descriptions rather refer to an approach that was chosen by two groups of students in similar forms but independently.
As the students’ groups were named after famous researchers, the following depiction is based on the results of group “Kepler” (these are the students of the higher level course in mathematics from the Elsa-Brandström-Schule in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein) and the group “Heinrich-Hertz” (these are the students of the higher level courses in mathematics from the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium and the Emil-Krause-Gymnasium in Hamburg).
Differences in the approaches of the two groups will be specified at the respective passages.