Chinese Journal of Science Education


Vol. 9 No. 1, Pages 15 - 34, 2001

Developing Elementary School Teachers' Problem-Posing Abilities: Examples of Teaching Multiplication and Division of Fractional Numbers (Article written in chinese)

Shiang-Tung LIU & Li-Shiung CHOU

Abstract

For current elementary schools, a mathematics teacher must have the ability to problem posing ability during students' construction of mathematics knowledge. In order to develop the problem posing ability of teachers, this study invited three sixth grade teachers and a researcher to conduct cooperative action research. The research group reviewed the literature, analyzed instructional objectives, analyzed instructional activities, to discuss problem solving strategies, and to teach three units related to multiplication and division of fractional numbers. Also, through the discussions held before and after teaching of each unit, the research group analyzed instructional practice, which subsequently modified the teaching approaches. This study f ound that the research teachers refined their problem posing abilities during the research process. Yet, the quantity of the mathematical material restricted the development of those abilities.

Keywords: cooperative active research; mathematics problem-posing; mathematics writing; fractional teaching

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