Students’ Difficulties with Problem Posing in Early Childhood Education

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ID22045994
AuthorsEnrique Carmona Medeiro (0000-0003-1172-3389, Universidad de Cádiz, corresponding author), Nuria Climent (0000-0002-0064-1452, Universidad de Huelva)
Year2025
Volume15
Issue5
Pages630
Publication date2025-05-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/educsci15050630
OpenAlexW4410549504
LanguageEN
References cited37

This study focuses on exploring students’ emerging difficulties during a problem posing task in an early childhood education classroom (4–5 years old). Through a single case study, and by considering the problems posed as an indicator of the students’ mathematical performance level, the difficulties inherent in the process of posing problems based on a given situation are characterised. The results reveal the existence of difficulties both in the exploration phase of the problem situation and in posing the problems themselves. This shows that the main difficulties are related to a lack of accuracy in language, which is typical of this stage, and to the notion of a non-mathematical problem that prevails in the students

Early childhood education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Games and Gamification · Psychology

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