The effect of using problem posing tecnique to problem solving success for the students whose mathematics achievement level is high and students' self regulated learning strategies

The aim of this research is to examine how teaching the techniques of problem posing to the students who have high success in mathematics affects their problem solving and to determine the capabilities of using their self regulated learning strategies. Besides in the research it is aimed to find the scientists of future and to prepare them for scientific works from now on.The research is carried with 11 male and 14 female students who study in the eighth grade in a private classroom in Burdur which is dependent to the Ministry of Education in the first term of 2011-2012 education year.The research is designed in the pretest-posttest empirical pattern model. The effect of empirical operation has been examined on one group which is appropriately chosen for the aim. The problem posing and solving activities are applied to the test group students for eight weeks.In the study mathematics achievement test which is made of six open ended questions prepared by the researcher as a means of data collection and Motivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire are used. The data obtained from the research are analyzed with the help of t test.As a result of the application it is observed that the posttest avarage scores of the students in the test group are higher than the avarages of the pre-test scores and this result is meaningful. Besides it is identified that those students whose mathematics success is high use cognitive regulatory strategies. It is appeared that of these strategies the most used ones are deep cognitive strategies (elaboration and organization).Key Words: Problem Posing, Problem Solving, Self-regulated Strategies, Math Achievement.