MATHEMATICS PROBLEM SOLVING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THROUGH COLLABORATIVE ACTION RESEARCH
This paper draws from a study that aimed at finding out how teachers’ collaborative action research in the Teachers Learning Together (TLT) project promotes professional development in the area of mathematics amongst elementary school teachers.
The paper focuses on an analysis of teachers’ experiences of teaching and learning of problem solving in a collaborative action research. Qualitative research approach was used to conduct case studies of three teacher-researcher teams.
In the two cases analysed in this paper, collaborative action research provided opportunities for teachers to learn about problem solving process, creating an environment that fosters students’ learning through problem solving and mathematics knowledge for teaching