Abstract

FERRARI ESCOLA, Marcela  and  FARFAN MARQUEZ, Rosa María. Multiply by summing: an experience with senior high school students. Relime [online]. 2017, vol.20, n.2, pp.137-166. ISSN 2007-6819.  https://doi.org/10.12802/relime.17.2021.

In this article we report an experience carried out with senior high school students based on Socioepistemology and adopting didactic engineering as research methodology. The purpose was to generate a particular environment that would favor the emergence of the logarithmic using manageable materials, rescuing primordial arguments by Stiffer, Napier y Briggs. The analysis of the students' individual and collective argumentations which arise when discovering and using the rule of multiply by summing as a tool to facilitate operations in order to construct more charts as well as the game's general chart, demonstrates an approach to the covariation and the logarithmic properties.

Keywords : Socioepistemology; Logarithmic properties; Multiply by summing.