Mathematical Problem Proving and Problem Posing

Abstract

This article describes students’ tasks that concerned to assess students’ problem proving and problem posing on triangle tasks. This descriptive-explorative research involves 24 prospective mathematics teachers at a state university in Surabaya, Indonesia. They had to answer three questions. The first question related to problem proving of triangle theorem. The second question related to their perception of the first question, and the last question related to the problem-posing task. A Newman analysis is used to analyse the data. The analysis of the data focused on students’ problem proving and students’ problem posing of triangle task. The results showed that most of them were correct to answer the question as many as 41%. It can be seen of the first question was performed by the highest number of them. However, some of them still have a perception of the first question is a problem, because it shows as many as 95% of 24 students choose it. They also have some weaknesses in proving problems, mainly misinformation or ambiguity about the problem, it is not a category as a problem proving. They constructed proof by formal proof with a low level of problem difficulty as many as only 38 % of them.