scholarly journals Pre-service primary school teachers’ preference of the problem solving strategies for word problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 3463-3468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adem Duru ◽  
Murat Peker ◽  
Erhan Bozkurt ◽  
Levent Akgün ◽  
Zeynep Bayrakdar
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Word Problems ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Problem Solving Strategies

Problem Solving for the Primary Grades

1982 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
James V. Bruni
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Primary Grades ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Primary Mathematics ◽  
Problem Solvers

“How can my children possibly be expected to do problem solving when they are only beginning to learn to read and to do basic arithmetic computation?” This is often the lament of primary-school teachers when urged to include problem solving in their mathematics programs. Developing problem-solving skills is often equated with training children to solve arithmetic word problems, but problem olving has a much broader meaning. It is not only possible for young children to become problem solvers but also, primary mathematics instruction can be organized to help develop problem-solving skills.

scholarly journals Pre-service primary school teachers’ metacognitive awareness and beliefs about mathematical problem solving

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Alper Yorulmaz ◽  
Hümeyra Uysal ◽  
Halil Çokçaliskan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Mathematical Problem Solving ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness Inventory ◽  
The Relationship

Metacognitive awareness is a variable that is thought to affect beliefs in  problem solving. When the literature is examined, it is seen that the studies mostly focus on metacognitive awareness and problem solving skills. Therefore, the aim is to determine pre-service primary school teachers’ metacognitive awareness and beliefs in mathematical problem solving. In this study, it is thought that it will contribute to the researches that will be carried out regarding the investigation of the relationship between metacognitive awareness and beliefs about problem solving and its implementation with pre-service primary school teachers. The study, designed as the correlational survey model, included a total of 284 pre-service primary school teachers attending a university in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The data were collected with the “Metacognitive Awareness Inventory” and the “Scale of Beliefs about Mathematical Problem Solving”. In the analysis, descriptive statistics, difference test, correlation and regression analyses were used. As a result, the pre-service primary school teachers’ metacognitive awareness was found to be high and their beliefs about mathematical problem solving were found to be medium. While metacognitive awareness was found to be not varying significantly by gender, beliefs about mathematical problem solving were found to be varying significantly by gender in favor of the male pre-service teachers. Moreover, a medium and significant correlation was found between metacognitive awareness and beliefs about mathematical problem solving. It was also found that metacognitive awareness explained 13% of the variance in the dependent variable of beliefs about mathematical problem solving.

scholarly journals Classification and Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers’ Errors in Solving Fermi Problems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Carlos Segura ◽  
Irene Ferrando
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Problem Context ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Modelling Process ◽  
Task Sequences

Fermi problems are useful for introducing modelling in primary school classrooms, although teachers’ difficulties in problem solving may hinder their successful implementation. These difficulties are associated with the modelling process, but also with the estimation and measurement skills required by Fermi problems. In this work, a specific categorization of errors for Fermi problems was established, and it allowed us to analyse the errors of N = 224 pre-service primary school teachers. The results showed that prospective teachers make a large number of errors when solving this type of task, especially conceptual ones, which are associated with the process of simplifying/structuring the real situation and the mathematization process. They also showed that there is a significant relationship between the characteristics of the problem context and the error categories. Knowing the types of errors that prospective teachers make and designing task sequences that make them emerge so that prospective teachers learn from them could be an effective way to improve initial teacher education in modelling and estimation problem solving.

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