The Problem-Posing Practices of Primary Students

• In Event: Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: Student Cognition, Attitudes, and Learning in Math

Abstract

A classroom of grades two and three students and their teacher participated in a research study that examined what inspires young children to pose mathematical problems that they are genuinely interested in solving. The types of problems that emerged came from four categories of inspiration.

Author

• Janice Novakowski, The University of British Columbia