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Affect in mathematical problem posing: conceptualization, advances, and future directions for research
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“the complex and multifaceted nature of mathematical problem posing (Cai & Hwang, 2020;Cai & Leikin, 2020;Kontorovich, 2020), as well as the frequently non-transparent mechanisms underlying the more or less effective interventions on developing this competence, make it difficult for researchers and practitioners to understand or replicate best practice.”
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“researchers agree that the development of participants' mathematical problem-posing competence can lead to positive observed cognitive outcomes, such as a higher quality and quantity of posed problems, and noncognitive outcomes, such as more positive affective-motivational dispositions that underlie the cognitive outcomes (Bicer et al., 2020;Cai & Leikin, 2020).”
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“Although there are studies considering problem-posing processes (Headrick et al., 2020;Ponte & Henriques, 2013), general knowledge about learners' problem-posing processes remains limited (Cai & Leikin, 2020).”
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“Such tasks create opportunities for students to connect to their different experiences and backgrounds and pose very different problems, all of which are related to mathematical ideas (Cai & Leikin, 2020).”
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