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Problem solving in the school curriculum from a design perspective
Citation
Toh, T. L., Leong, Y. H., Dindyal, J., & Quek, K. S. (2010). Problem solving in the school curriculum from a design perspective. In L. Sparrow, B. Kissane, & C. Hurst (Eds.), Shaping the future of mathematics education: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 744-756). Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
Abstract
In this symposium, we discuss some preliminary data collected from our problem solving project which uses a design experiment approach. Our approach to problem solving in the school Curriculum is in tandem with what Schoenfeld (2007) claimed: “Crafting instruction that would make a wide range of problem-solving strategies accessible to students would be a very valuable contribution … This is an engineering task rather than a conceptual one” (p. 541). In the first paper, we look at how two teachers on this project taught problem solving. As good problems are key to the successful implementation of our project, in the second paper, we focus on some of the problems that were used in the project and discuss the views of the participating students on these problems. The third paper shows how an initially selected problem led to a substitute problem to meet our design criteria.
Date Issued
July 2010
ISBN
9781920846251
Description
This paper was presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Incorporated (MERGA 2010) on “Shaping the future of mathematics education”, held in Fremantle, Western Australia from 3 – 7 Jul 2010