Research Seminar in Mathematics - Research on posing modelling problems: What mathematics teacher candidates could gain from problem-posing experience?

Speaker

Serife Sevinc.

Abstract

Problem-posing is a fruitful experience for students, teachers, and teacher candidates. In this talk, I will share some of my research with mathematics teacher candidates regarding their challenges and takeaways from posing modelling problems. The findings, drawn from the analysis of pre-service middle school teachers’ written work in some research and their oral explanations during interviews in other research, revealed their conceptions of a “good modelling problem” and the kinds of knowledge they employed when posing modelling problems. However, it should be noted that problem-posing is not a straightforward task; therefore, this talk will also address some of the challenges the teacher candidates experienced in this process.

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