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ERIC Number: EJ1303041
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Aug
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1863-9690
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Exploring Underprepared Undergraduate Students' Mathematical Problem Posing
Silber, Steven; Cai, Jinfa
ZDM: Mathematics Education, v53 n4 p877-889 Aug 2021
This study investigated 45 undergraduate students' mathematical problem posing based on four problem situations. This study was designed to better understand the kinds of problems they pose, and the kinds of mathematical ideas exhibited when problem posing. The findings of this study support that underprepared college students can pose mathematical problems and were largely capable of engaging with the critical mathematical ideas embedded in problem-posing tasks. Problem-posing tasks, then, appear to be a context within which underprepared undergraduate students can successfully engage with key mathematical ideas. The main implication of these findings is that problem posing appears to be amenable to being harnessed as a pedagogical tool for developmental mathematics courses.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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