Abstract

CORDERO, Francisco  and  FLORES, Rebeca. El uso de las gráficas en el discurso matemático escolar: Un estudio socioepistemológico en el nivel básico a través de los libros de texto. Relime [online]. 2007, vol.10, n.1, pp.07-38. ISSN 2007-6819.

The following research contributes to the foundational formulation of the socioepistemologic approach, which consists of considering the social practices as the constituents of the mathematical knowledge: What is what rules the construction of the mathematical knowledge? Such formulation offers indicators to develop a functional mathematics in the educational system. We carry out thus a study of the use of the graphics in the school mathematical speech (dme), which consists of understanding the graphics as a social practice in its institutional process and not like a representation of the concept of function. We carry out the study through the textbooks of basic level to create a reference frame that helps assign a new meaning to the mathematical knowledge in question.

Keywords : Use of graphics; assign new meaning; school mathematical speech.