Proceso metacognitivo del pensamiento lógico matemático: razonamiento hipotético

Abstract

This research contains an analysis about cognitive and metacognitive children development between 10 and 12 years old, based on Jean Piaget and John Flavell cognitive theories, emphasizing the second and the third childhood. Also includes the analysis and development of logical mathematical thinking in the third childhood and the role of cognitive and metacognitive processes in its development, getting to analyze hypothetical reasoning process as a metacognitive process of logical reasoning math in the third childhood. In addition, it focuses on the metacognition role which is developed through the hypothetical reasoning as the process in problem solving. Cognitive theory relied heavily on Sternberg and the Polya process solving problems, in the final chapter shows an exhaustive analysis of the results gotten from the different non-formal tests applied to a specific group of children who participated in the process. in an effort to show that: for the cognitive development of children could be evidence that the metacognitive process of hypothetical reasoning emerges during childhood and the third sets throughout adolescence, reaching the conclusion of the importance of teaching basic cognitive skills early that underpin the emergence of metacognitive processes that promote comprehensively development of the thinking of children.