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Novice Chilean Secondary Mathematics Teachers as Problem Solvers

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Posing and Solving Mathematical Problems

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In this chapter we present a research on a group of 30 novice Chilean mathematics teachers as problem solvers. We study their performance while working on two problems, how they felt when they worked on them and how do they see as problem solver in a self-evaluation.

The analysis we present is part of a larger research project whose general objective is to explore relationships among (a) the opportunities that initial teacher training programs offer them to grow as problem solvers and as teachers able to promote problem solving in their class, (b) the mathematical knowledge of novice mathematics teachers as problem solvers, and (c) their pedagogical practices regarding the way they promote their students as problem solvers.

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Acknowledgments

This research has been partially supported by the Ministry of Education of Chile by Funds for Research and Development in Education (FONIDE F721209, year 2012), Basal Funds for Centers of Excellence-Project FB 0003 from the Associative Research Program of CONICYT, and BASAL-CMM-Projects, Project Fondecyt 3140597, and Project EDU2011-29328.

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  1. Center for Mathematical Modeling and Center for Advanced Research in Education, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Patricio Felmer & Josefa Perdomo-Díaz

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  1. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Patricio Felmer

  2. University of Helskini, Helsinki, Finland

    Erkki Pehkonen

  3. University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Jeremy Kilpatrick

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Felmer, P., Perdomo-Díaz, J. (2016). Novice Chilean Secondary Mathematics Teachers as Problem Solvers. In: Felmer, P., Pehkonen, E., Kilpatrick, J. (eds) Posing and Solving Mathematical Problems. Research in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28023-3_17

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