“…Similarly, in studies conducted with problem posing, it was observed that pre-service teachers had difficulty in posing problems requiring creative reasoning (Crespo, 2003;Işık & Kar, 2012;Korkmaz & Gür, 2006;Ulusoy & Kepceoğlu, 2018;Xie & Masingila, 2017). The problems posed by pre-service primary school teachers are generally one-step, routine problems involving simple calculations (Crespo, 2003;Işık & Kar, 2012;Korkmaz & Gür, 2006;Serin, 2019;Xie & Masingila, 2017). Işık, Işık, and Kar (2011), in a study conducted with pre-service primary school teachers, stated that the problems posed are problems that do not have linguistic complexity, are stated as homework, are simple, and do not require high-level thinking.…”