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PROBLEM SOLVING IN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM : PERSPECTIVES AND PRODUCTS FROM PARTICIPANTS IN A WEB-BASED MATHEMATICAL COMPETITION

• Hélia Jacinto
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• Education, Mathematics

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Higher education institutions are consistently seeking ways to deliver more transformative teacher education in a rapidly evolving global environment, and in this complex global environment key practitioner assets include research skills and collective efficacy. Research suggests that project-based learning is one method that nurtures these vital skills. This chapter presents an innovation that describes an instructor and teacher practitioners’ journey through the development of an innovative assessment that used project-based learning pedagogy. As part of formative assessment in a Teaching of Language Arts at the Primary Level course, three cohorts of teacher practitioners (n = 42, 35 and 41, respectively) were exposed to project-based learning pedagogy to address an issue of national importance. In one semester, over three consecutive years, they used classroom projects to distribute 95 reading spaces (mini libraries) to primary schools in two regions in Guyana. The innovation described illustrates how teacher practitioners developed research skills and collective teacher efficacy from the project-based assessment. This type of innovation has implications for the transformative teacher education pedagogy required for meeting rapidly expanding educational needs. It is likely to promote transformative and inquiry-based learning essential for helping teachers to develop collective efficacy to address authentic classroom-based challenges.

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Jacinto, H. & Carreira, S. (2012). Problem Solving in and beyond the classroom: Perspectives and products from participants in a web-based mathematical competition

"Being aware that school is just one of many places where youngsters learn, the research community has been stressing the need to deepen knowledge about the role and relevance of beyond school mathematical learning contexts. In this paper we are focusing on the mathematical problem solving activity that occurs at Sub14 - a beyond school web-based competition. Our purpose is to describe and understand how do participants engage in solving mathematical problems within the competition, and what are their perspectives regarding the differences and the similarities of the problem solving activity in the mathematics classroom and in the competition Sub14. Participants’ perspectives show an overlap between mathematical activity developed in those two contexts. The analysis of participants’ productions illustrate how they merge knowledge about problem solving acquired in this beyond school context with mathematics content knowledge, learnt at school. Keywords: mathematical problem solving; beyond school learning; web-based competition."

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