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Daniel Doz; Amalija Žakelj; Mara Cotic – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) in mathematics is a student-centered approach that encourages exploration, problem-solving, and critical thinking, allowing students to actively engage with mathematical concepts and discover relationships through hands-on activities and collaborative learning. Despite the growing interest in IBL within mathematics…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Mathematics Education, Student Centered Learning, Problem Solving
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Hino, Keiko – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how students listen and attend to multiple solutions proposed by their classmates during the activity of comparison. This study examines ten consecutive lessons in each of the two eighth-grade classrooms in Tokyo that are organized in the style of "structured problem solving".…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Problem Solving
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Ellerton, Nerida F. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
Although official curriculum documents make cursory mention of the need for problem posing in school mathematics, problem posing rarely becomes part of the implemented or assessed curriculum. This paper provides examples of how problem posing can be made an integral part of mathematics teacher education programs. It is argued that such programs…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Instruction
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Dekker, Rijkje; Elshout-Mohr, Marianne; Wood, Terry – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
In this article we analyze the dialogic learning of one pair of students in order to investigate how these students cope with a collaborative learning situation in the classroom. Our aim is to substantiate the claims that not only are young students (8 year olds) capable of solving mathematical problems collaboratively, but that they also take an…
Descriptors: Self Management, Cooperative Learning, Primary Education, Problem Solving