Problem Posing: Reflections and Applications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080581065X ISBN 13: 9780805810653

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1993

Synopsis

As a result of the editors' collaborative teaching at Harvard in the late 1960s, they produced a ground-breaking work -- The Art Of Problem Posing -- which related problem posing strategies to the already popular activity of problem solving. It took the concept of problem posing and created strategies for engaging in that activity as a central theme in mathematics education.

Based in part upon that work and also upon a number of articles by its authors, other members of the mathematics education community began to apply and expand upon their ideas. This collection of thirty readings is a testimony to the power of the ideas that originally appeared. In addition to reproducing relevant materials, the editors of this book of readings have included a considerable amount of interpretive text which places the articles in the context of problem solving. While the preponderance of essays focus upon mathematics and mathematics education, some of them point to the relevance of problem posing to other fields such as biology or psychology. In the interpretive text that accompanies each chapter, they indicate how ideas expressed for one audience may be revisited or transformed in order to ready them for a variety of audiences.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen I. Brown, Marion I. Walter

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080581065X
• ISBN 13: 9780805810653
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Brown Stephen I., Walter Marion I.