摘要：The aim of the present study was to determine the potential difficulties which might be experienced by elementary school 7th grade students related to the problems posed by them on addition operation with fractions. The study was conducted with 210 students studying at seven elementary schools located in Erzurum city center. The Problem Posing Test consisted of five items related to addition operation with fractions was used as the data collection tool. Seven difficulties were determined in the problems posed by the students. The most significant difficulty was observed in posing problems requiring addition of two simple fractions to produce a fraction with integer, while the least significant one was experienced in posing problems requiring addition of two simple fractions to produce a simple fraction
关键词：Problem posing; fractions; addition operation with fractions.
