{"title":"Teaching mathematics through problem posing: Elements of the task","authors":"Janaína Poffo Possamai , Norma Suely Gomes Allevato","doi":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101133","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current research and curriculum documents from several countries have highlighted the importance of problem posing. However, some elements of this activity in mathematics classes still need to be further explored and understood. The objective of this article is to investigate how situations and problem-posing prompts affect teaching through problem posing. Three teaching cases are presented and analyzed, including instructional techniques guiding teaching through problem posing. The results indicate that teachers must align the problem-posing task with the intended goals for the lesson, analyzing how the prompt can enhance or limit particular aspects of the problems posed by the students.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732312324000105","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Current research and curriculum documents from several countries have highlighted the importance of problem posing. However, some elements of this activity in mathematics classes still need to be further explored and understood. The objective of this article is to investigate how situations and problem-posing prompts affect teaching through problem posing. Three teaching cases are presented and analyzed, including instructional techniques guiding teaching through problem posing. The results indicate that teachers must align the problem-posing task with the intended goals for the lesson, analyzing how the prompt can enhance or limit particular aspects of the problems posed by the students.
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The Journal of Mathematical Behavior solicits original research on the learning and teaching of mathematics. We are interested especially in basic research, research that aims to clarify, in detail and depth, how mathematical ideas develop in learners. Over three decades, our experience confirms a founding premise of this journal: that mathematical thinking, hence mathematics learning as a social enterprise, is special. It is special because mathematics is special, both logically and psychologically. Logically, through the way that mathematical ideas and methods have been built, refined and organized for centuries across a range of cultures; and psychologically, through the variety of ways people today, in many walks of life, make sense of mathematics, develop it, make it their own.