Integración del pensamiento algebraico en la educación básica. Un experimento de enseñanza con alumnos de 8-9 años

  1. Marta Molina 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

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Actas:
Ensino e Aprendizagem da Álgebra. Actas do Encontro de Investigacao em Educacao Matemática
  1. Maria Helena Martinho (ed. lit.)
  2. Rosa Antónia Tomás Ferreira (ed. lit.)
  3. Isabel Vale (ed. lit.)
  4. João Pedro da Ponte (ed. lit.)

Año de publicación: 2011

Páginas: 27-51

Congreso: Ensino e Aprendizagem da Álgebra. Actas do Encontro de Investigacao em Educacao Matemática (2011o. Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

En esta ponencia se describe la propuesta curricular Early-Álgebra – consistente en la integración de modos de pensamiento algebraicos en el currículo de los dos primeros ciclos de la educación básica – y se detallan algunas de las investigaciones que se han realizado sobre la misma a nivel internacional. Posteriormente se describe en mayor profundidad un experimento de enseñanza, realizado con estudiantes de 8-9 años, que persigue indagar en el potencial de dicha propuesta y en la capacidad de estos estudiantes para trabajar en aritmética de un modo algebraico. En este estudio se centra la atención en un tipo de pensamiento algebraico, el pensamiento relacional, que se hace manifiesto en el trabajo con expresiones aritméticas y algebraicas, y que se relaciona con otros constructos de la literatura en Educación Matemática tales como el sentido estructural, el pensamiento cuasivariable y las meta-estrategias conceptuales.

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