Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 49 Issue 1, December 2011
6 – 9
The Problem of Problem Solving
Sherry Matheson
Teachers in Alberta are required to submit yearly professional growth plans to their school administration. Each goal undertaken by the teacher for that school year must align with a descriptor, set by Ministerial Order #016/97, of know ledge, skill or attribute required of teachers who possess a permanent teaching certificate in this province. One of the descriptors states, “Teachers are career-long learners.’·1 My own career-long learning has focused on primary children’s learning. It has taken me most of my thirty-year teaching career to work through the problem of problem solving.
