Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea

Min Kyeong Kim; Mi Kyung Cho

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Min Kyeong Kim ¹ ^* , Mi Kyung Cho ¹

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¹ Ewha Womans University^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Background:
This article examines the use and application of an ill-structured problem to pre-service elementary teachers in Korea in order to find implications of pre-service teacher education with regard to contextualized problem solving by analyzing experiences of ill-structured problem solving.

Material and methods:
Participants were divided into small groups depending on the level of motivation. They participated in a five-step phase labeled A-B-C-D-E [Analyze-Browse-Create-Decision making-Evaluate] for problem solving evaluations.

Results:
Result showed that the phase-specific analysis of ill-structured problem solving processes from the level of motivation could decide the quality of their problem solving in subsequent phases.

Conclusions:
There is a strong need to recognize the necessity of developing problems based on a realistic situational context in pre-service teacher education, and to offer opportunities to mathematize I-S problems to further identify the mathematical potential from everyday math.

Keywords

motivation
mathematics education
pre-service teacher
ill-structured problem solving

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2016, Volume 12, Issue 6, 1569-1587

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Kim, M. K., & Cho, M. K. (2016). Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(6), 1569-1587. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Kim MK, Cho MK. Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(6):1569-87. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Kim MK, Cho MK. Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(6), 1569-1587. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Kim, Min Kyeong, and Mi Kyung Cho. "Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2016 12 no. 6 (2016): 1569-1587. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Kim, M. K., and Cho, M. K. (2016). Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(6), pp. 1569-1587. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a

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Kim, Min Kyeong et al. "Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Motivation and Ill-Structured Problem Solving in Korea". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 12, no. 6, 2016, pp. 1569-1587. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1246a