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How to Stimulate In-Service Teachers’ Didactic Analysis Competence by Means of Problem Posing

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Mathematical Problem Solving

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Problem posing has long been recognized as a critically important intellectual activity in scientific investigation (Cai, Hwang, Jiang, & Silber, 2015). There are empirical studies that use problem posing activities to improve the teachers’ mathematical practices. Therefore, our study focuses in the didactic analysis competence. Our central research question is: How can we use problem-posing activities to stimulate the development of teachers’ didactic analysis competence? We analyze a problem posed by in-service teachers taking as start point a problem related to affine function. Our findings give us evidences to claim in-service teachers show difficulties to pose problems with didactical considerations. Therefore, we propose to stimulate teachers’ didactic analysis competence by means of an instructional process using a problem posing strategy that involves a didactic reflection phase on the mathematical practices carried out and the route to actually implement it in teaching practice.

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This work has been developed as part of the Research Projects on teacher training EDU2015-64646-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE) and IREM-PUCP 0390 (Peru). We give special thanks to Dr. Vicenç Font for his support as an expert in OSA.

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    Uldarico Malaspina, Carlos Torres & Norma Rubio

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Malaspina, U., Torres, C., Rubio, N. (2019). How to Stimulate In-Service Teachers’ Didactic Analysis Competence by Means of Problem Posing. In: Liljedahl, P., Santos-Trigo, M. (eds) Mathematical Problem Solving. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10472-6_7

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