El desarrollo del cálculo en cuarto de básica: estrategias utilizadas por los docentes en matemáticas

Abstract

Develop the calculation in the children bring several benefits as much as in the academic as the diary practice, because help to improve the critical thought and the Agility for solving problems, however, in local level, we don’t know how the teachers work in the classroom so that this ability can be taken advantage of for the children. In this sense the objective of this study was to analyze the kind of calculation that the teachers use for teaching the math in elemental level. The study adopted a qualitative approach, through of the observation of 24 math classes of four teachers of four public schools of Cuenca city and later semi structured interviews to the observed teachers. In the findings were evident that there is traditional teaching of the calculation, in which predominates the teaching of logarithm, thus, exist an absence of mental calculation, besides, discovered that of teachers speech to a constructivist approaches of the math but in their practices the teaching of calculation are opposed to the speech.