An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 12: The ROAR Experience, Part III

Gabriella Colajanni (), Alessandro Gobbi (), Marinella Picchi (), Alice Raffaele () and Eugenia Taranto ()
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Gabriella Colajanni: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
Alessandro Gobbi: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Marinella Picchi: IIS Antonietti, 25049 Iseo, Italy
Alice Raffaele: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Eugenia Taranto: Department of Humanities, Foreign Language and Education, Kore University of Enna, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna, Italy

INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025, vol. 26, issue 1, 12-33

Abstract: In this paper, we finish describing the project and the experimentation of Ricerca Operativa Applicazioni Reali (ROAR; in English, Real Applications of Operations Research), a three-year project for higher secondary schools. ROAR is composed of three teaching units addressed to grades 10, 11, and 12, respectively. To improve students’ interest, motivation, and skills related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines, ROAR integrates the teaching of mathematics and computer science through operations research. Its implementation started in 2021 in a grade 10 class at the scientific high school IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy). We provided the details of the first two units in previous papers. Here, we focus on the third and last unit, carried out from October 2022 to January 2023, with the same students, then in a grade 12 class. Similarly to the first two units, we describe objectives, prerequisites, topics and methods, the organization of the lectures, digital technologies used, and a challenging final project that, this time, involved the manufacturer company Filtrec S.p.A. with a case. After analyzing the feedback from students, teachers, and practitioners engaged in the experimentation, we reflect on the entire experimentation and provide some insights to replicate a similar experience.

Keywords: Python; PuLP; collaborative learning; cooperative learning; group projects; teaching modeling; teaching optimization; cases; grade 12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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