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Prospective Teachers Creating and Solving a Probability Problem: An Exploratory Study

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Probability teaching is conditioned by the teacher’s knowledge, not only being related to the mathematical knowledge but also the pedagogical knowledge. In this paper, a content analysis has been used in an exploratory study to determine how prospective teachers manage to pose and solve a probability task in a specific educational context. Through this content analysis we have obtained a classification of prospective teachers’ productions, according to how they pose and solve the problem and how they succeed or fail in adapting the problem to a certain level. Results indicate that working with prospective teachers in creating their own problems help them to implement their skills for an effective teaching of the subject of mathematics. We could also observe that many prospective teachers still show lack of mathematical or pedagogical knowledge. This fact underlines the need for working with complex mathematical tasks, so that the prospective teachers engage into different mathematical processes.

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This research has been partially supported by the Spanish MINECO project (TIN2017-87600-P).

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  1. Department of Statistics and Operational Research and Mathematics Education, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    Marlén Alonso-Castaño & Luis J. Rodríguez-Muñiz

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “Renato Caccioppoli”, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Maria Mellone

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    Pedro Alonso

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Alonso-Castaño, M., Alonso, P., Mellone, M., Rodríguez-Muñiz, L.J. (2021). Prospective Teachers Creating and Solving a Probability Problem: An Exploratory Study. In: Herrero, Á., Cambra, C., Urda, D., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020). ICEUTE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_11

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