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M. Alicia Venegas-thayer
Recursos informáticos para el aprendizaje de las matemáticas mediante metáforas musicales: el proceso de creación y evaluación de PicaLab.
El proyecto PicaLab propone el diseño, elaboración y evaluación de recursos informáticos modulares para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de contenidos matemáticos a través del sonido y la música, en los niveles de tercero, cuarto y quinto año de Educación Básica en Chile. Si bien estos fueron diseñados como recursos para la sala de clases, pueden ser usados por las y los estudiantes fuera de ese contexto. El proceso ha seguido la metodología de investigación de las ciencias del diseño con el fin de diseñar prototipos funcionales de naturaleza multimodal en conjunto con sus guías didácticas: 1) identificación del problema, que permite detectar necesidades y construir un marco teórico ad hoc; 2)…
Software for the learning of mathematics through musical metaphors: The creation and evaluation process of PicaLab
The PicaLab project proposes the design, development, and assessment of an integrated modular software solution involving sound and music, with the aim of improving mathematical learning in the third, fourth, and fifth levels of primary education in Chile. While these modular solutions were designed as resources for the classroom, students outside of that context can use them too. The process followed a methodology in several stages in order to generate multi-modal functional prototypes, together with their respective didactic guides, that link music and mathematics. These prototypes have been put through an iterative evaluation process leading up their final version. Results indicate an ex…
Design, Implementation and Students' Emotional Assessment of a Software for the Learning of Rational Numbers through Music Metaphors in Chilean Primary Education. An Exploratory Study on Audio Fractions
Using sound and music as a metaphor to approach curricular mathematical contents in Primary Education seems an interesting field that deserves some research. Both music and sound can synergically act as scaffolding for learning, intervening as part of situated knowledge, and they could offer a new perspective for learning mathematics at schools, giving pupils opportunities to develop their own mental representations. Also, the incorporation of an affective/emotional analysis, as criteria for evaluation, seems pertinent and complementary to other criteria in the production of multimedia material with educational purposes both in formal and non-formal domains of education. These are the inten…