Mathematics plays a crucial role in physics. This role is brought about predominantly through the
building, employment, and assessment of mathematical models, and teachers and educators should
capture this relationship in the classroom in an effort to improve students? achievement and
attitude in both physics and mathematics. But although there are overwhelming amounts of literature
on modeling in science and mathematics education, the interdisciplinary position is seldom addressed
explicitly. Furthermore, there has been a striking lack of exposure of the question of how future
teachers, who are largely educated in a mono-disciplinary fashion, can best become equipped to
introduce genuinely interdisciplinary teaching activities to their future pupils. This paper
presents some preliminary reflections upon a graduate course, which aims to prepare future physics
and mathematics teachers for interdisciplinary teaching, and which has been designed on the basis of
influential theoretic…