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Investigation of Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Opinions About Problem Concept

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Mathematical Analysis II: Optimisation, Differential Equations and Graph Theory (ICRAPAM 2018)

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This study aims to not only determine the views of prospective elementary teacher about Polya’s four-step problem-solving process used in mathematics teaching, the problem concept and characteristics of nonroutine problems and their solutions, but also to investigate the level of knowledge about some important points concerning these concepts that prospective elementary teacher need to sufficiently know. The research sample consists of 43 prospective elementary teachers from an education faculty of a state university in Turkey. The data were obtained from the answers the prospective elementary teachers wrote on the working papers that include various styles (multiple choice, true–false judgments selection, and open-ended) of questions. Both quantitative and qualitative assessment tools were employed in the analysis of the data.

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  1. Math Education Department, Faculty of Education, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey

    Danyal Soybaş & Sevim Sevgi

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India

    Naokant Deo

  2. Department of Mathematics, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Vijay Gupta

  3. Department of Mathematics, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

    Ana Maria Acu

  4. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    P. N. Agrawal

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Soybaş, D., Sevgi, S. (2020). Investigation of Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Opinions About Problem Concept. In: Deo, N., Gupta, V., Acu, A., Agrawal, P. (eds) Mathematical Analysis II: Optimisation, Differential Equations and Graph Theory. ICRAPAM 2018. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 307. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1157-8_21

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