Investigation of the Performance of the Middle School Students in the Posing of Problems That Can Be Solved By The Looking for A Pattern Strategy

A total of 189 middle school 8th grade students participated in this study and it was aimed to determine the problem posing performances of these students that can be solved by the look for a pattern strategy which is one of the problem solving strategies. For this purpose, students are asked to pose problems that can be solved with the look for a pattern strategy and to explain step by step what they are doing in the process of posing this problem. Clinical inter-views were conducted with 6 students who were volunteers from the study participants and who differed according to their level of achievement. Descriptive and semantic analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data obtained from the study. According to the results of the study it can be concluded that the vast majority of participants tended to give pattern examples rather than the problems that could be solved by the look for a pattern problem solving strategy. When we look at the structure of the problems that can be solved by the loook for a pattern strategy, it is seen that the students apply more linear number patterns