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Cultivating Primary School Students' Inductive Thinking through the "Problem Chain" Approach: Taking the Example of "The Sum of Interior Angles of Polygons" in the People's Education Press Primary School Mathematics Textbook

by Jie Weng 1
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JASES  2025 7(2):238; https://doi.org/10.69610/j.ases.2025030104
Received: / Accepted: / Published Online: 1 March 2025
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Primary school mathematics serves as a crucial cornerstone of basic education and plays a vital role in developing students' logical thinking and other essential skills. Inductive thinking is a necessary competence for students, helping them to discover patterns, summarize methods, and transfer and apply knowledge. However, the cultivation of inductive thinking has not received sufficient attention in current primary mathematics teaching, and teaching methods need further optimization. The problem chain teaching method, which uses a series of interconnected questions to guide learning, can effectively stimulate students’ thinking vitality. Integrating this method with the cultivation of inductive thinking can inject new energy into classroom teaching, enhancing both students' inductive thinking abilities and their overall mathematical literacy. This study aims to explore how to cultivate primary school students' inductive thinking through problem chain teaching, providing valuable insights for future teaching reform.

Keywords: problem chain; primary school mathematics; inductive thinking.;
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Weng, J. Cultivating Primary School Students' Inductive Thinking through the "Problem Chain" Approach: Taking the Example of "The Sum of Interior Angles of Polygons" in the People's Education Press Primary School Mathematics Textbook. Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies, 2025, 7, 238. doi:10.69610/j.ases.2025030104
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Weng J. Cultivating Primary School Students' Inductive Thinking through the "Problem Chain" Approach: Taking the Example of "The Sum of Interior Angles of Polygons" in the People's Education Press Primary School Mathematics Textbook. Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies; 2025, 7(2):238. doi:10.69610/j.ases.2025030104
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Weng, Jie 2025. "Cultivating Primary School Students' Inductive Thinking through the "Problem Chain" Approach: Taking the Example of "The Sum of Interior Angles of Polygons" in the People's Education Press Primary School Mathematics Textbook" Journal of Arts, Society, and Education Studies 7, no.2:238. doi:10.69610/j.ases.2025030104

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