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The contextual representation is simply the real-life situation that the problem describes. Prepackaged word problems are based on real life, as is the earlier flashlight problem, but alone they are not contextual. Asking students to create their own word problems based on real-life contexts will bring more meaning to the process and will reflect the purposes of mathematics in real life, such as when scientists, business analysts, and meteorologists mathematize contextual information in order to make predictions that benefit us all. This is a process called mathematical modeling, which Garfunkel and Montgomery (2019) define as the use of “mathematics to represent, analyze, make predictions or otherwise provide insight into real-world phenomena.”

Mathematical modeling: A process that uses mathematics to represent, analyze, make predictions, or otherwise provide insight into real- world phenomena.