The Tendency of Turkish Pre-service Teachers’ to Pose Word Problems

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Çiğdem KILIÇ

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The aim of this study was to identify the problem posing tendency of preservice teachers (primary and mathematics) in structured problem posing situations. Participants were selected using a two-step sampling process in order to prevent bias. In the first sampling process, a total of 109 pre-service teachers participated in the study. Of these participants, 48 were pre-service primary school mathematics teachers and 61 were pre-service primary teachers who were in their sixth term of school. In the second sampling process, 10 volunteer participants were selected using purposeful sampling. It was found that participants had a tendency to pose result-centered problems (contextually inappropriate and irrelevant result-focused problems) and context-centered problems (standard and non-standard word problems). In some cases, participants did not pose any word problems.

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Çiğdem KILIÇ. (2015). The Tendency of Turkish Pre-service Teachers’ to Pose Word Problems . Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 6(2), 163–178. Retrieved from https://turcomat.org/index.php/turkbilmat/article/view/84
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