Teachers implementing mathematical problem posing in the classroom: challenges and strategies

This paper reports a study about how a teacher educator shared knowledge with teachers when they worked together to implement mathematical problem posing (MPP) in the classroom. It includes feasible methods for getting practitioners to use research-based tasks aligned to the curriculum in order to encourage children to pose mathematical problems. Techniques, challenges, and strategies of implementing an MPP focus were also reported.

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