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