Abstract:

Generalization in mathematics is one of the ways that can be used for developing the skill of relating numbers with structures by referring principles and operations, and by providing some principles and numbers to pose problem status accordingly. In this regard, students should be assigned some numbers and operations and they should be made study on organizing problems that they need to use the assigned numbers in the operations by performing the signified conditions. This study aims at evaluating prospective teachers’ problem posing skills on absolute value. First grade students at elementary school mathematics teaching were given algebraic statements on absolute value and asked to pose an ordinary non-math problem about this statement.  The problems that they posed were evaluated with the problem posing evaluation criteria and then, interviews about the positive and negative sides of the problem posing study were carried out with students.  Students arrived at a consensus that experience is crucial in problem posing studies and at the end of the research it was determined that the students who did problem posing studies before were more successful.  Students need to do problem posing studies and they need to gain experience on this topic starting from the first years of the elementary school.

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