Abstract

PARRA, Verónica  and  OTERO, María Rita. Mathematics Teaching Based on the Study and Research Path: Mathematical Teaching Indicators of the “Dialectics”. Educ. mat. [online]. 2017, vol.29, n.3, pp.9-49.  Epub Feb 14, 2022. ISSN 2448-8089.  https://doi.org/10.24844/em2903.01.

This paper proposes and describes an analysis methodology based on the formulation of a set of didactic-mathematical indicators of the “dialectics” of study and research. These indicators were constructed based on the data obtained from de design, implementation and evaluation of a study and research path (SRP). The SRP’s initial questions are connected to market equilibrium in a microeconomic model of the supply and demand. Two implementations were developed in the last year of the Argentine secondary level (16-17years) (N = 60). The teacher proposed to the students the following type of questions: How to determine the market equilibrium? If the parameters of the model are modified: How to describe the variation of the point of equilibrium? How much does the point of equilibrium change exactly in each case? We conclude that the most identified dialectics are: the individual and collective, theme and out of theme, study and research, praxeological analysis-synthesis and didactic of analysis-synthesis, and the dialectic of black boxes and clear boxes.

Keywords : Market balance; Study and Research Path; Anthropological Theory of the Didactic; dialectics; didactic-mathematical indicators.