Search results for "Matemàtica Ensenyament"
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Application of a self-learning methodology for the enhancement of the oral communication student outcome in International Business studies
2019
[EN] Effective oral communication is one of the most demanded student outcomes in the labour market, especially for degree students on International Business. Although this outcome is usually evaluated in several subjects along the curriculum, it is barely worked neither inside nor outside the classroom, mainly due to lack of time and to unavailability of proper learning methodologies. The PIMECOE project, an innovation and educational improvement project on this matter, has developed a self-learning methodology on the Effective Oral Communication student outcome, in which auto-diagnosis tests, selflearning tools and peer assessments are conveniently combined to enhance the proficiency leve…
La observación de aula como herramienta de desarrollo profesional: el caso del OCDE Global Teaching InSights
2023
Se presenta el proyecto Global Teaching InSights Video Study, de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos [OCDE], cuyo objetivo es potenciar la grabación y el análisis de sesiones de clases como herramienta de desarrollo profesional y de formación de docentes de matemáticas. Se describe el trabajo llevado a cabo por los autores coordinando grupos de trabajo que se encargaron de diseñar un estudio de caso basado en un vídeo de una clase real. La difusión pública de los vídeos producidos permite, además, abordar el diseño de investigaciones centradas en observación guiada de la práctica de la enseñanza de las matemáticas.
Mathematical skills in undergraduate students. A ten-year survey of a Plant Physiology course
2012
In the health and life sciences, as well as in other scientific disciplines, problem solving depends on mathematical skills. However, significant deficiencies are commonly found in this regard in undergraduate students. In an attempt to understand the underlying causes and to improve students' performance, this paper reports a ten-year survey (2000-2010) on mathematical skills of undergraduate Spanish students enrolled in a Plant Physiology course, based on data from tests performed throughout this time period. The results show that the percentage of correct answers decreases for questions requiring some mathematical skills, particularly those needing some calculations. Interestingly, perce…
Mathematical literacy in Plant Physiology undergraduates: results of interventions aimed at improving students' performance
2013
The importance of mathematical literacy in any scientific career is widely recognized. However, various studies report lack of numeracy and mathematical literacy in students from various countries. In the present work we present a detailed study of the mathematical literacy of Spanish undergraduate students of Biology enrolled in a Plant Physiology course. We have performed individual analyses of results obtained during the period 2000-2011, for questions in the examinations requiring and not requiring mathematical skills. Additionally, we present the outcome of two interventions introduced with the aim of helping students improve their prospects for success in the course. Our results confi…
Design and implementation of modelling tasks using iPad's: a dual perspective
2016
[EN] This paper presents the design of two experiences to introduce modelling of physical phe-nomena through modelling tasks using iPadR's. Each of the proposals is designed with adi erent vision about modelling. In one case modelling is used as a vehicle to introduceprecise mathematical contents. While, on the other one, we intend to develop an activitythat can help student to improve their modelling competence. Our aim is to present twoproposals to introduce modelling in a ninth or tenth grade classroom
Supporting mathematical modelling by upscaling real context in a sequence of tasks
2021
AbstractCreating and developing mathematical models to solve real-world problems is a complex task and students often have difficulties in tackling it successfully. The design and implementation of sequences that help students autonomously develop their ability to solve modelling tasks could be a useful scaffolding tool to foster modelling learning. In this paper we present a sequence of estimation tasks in a real context based on what we have called the upscaling technique, which consists of scaling the accessibility and knowledge of the context used. A study with two samples of grade 10 students, experimental and control, has allowed us to find out whether this sequence promotes success i…
MAD+. Introducing Misconceptions in the Temporal Analysis of the Mathematical Modelling Process of a Fermi Problem
2021
This work describes how the combination of the mistakes committed by a group of pre-service teachers when solving a Fermi problem, with the representation of the temporal analysis of their resolutions, can offer more in-depth information about their conceptual misconceptions regarding mathematical and modelling concepts. The combined representation allows knowing when mistakes occur and provides a powerful tool for instructors to adapt the teaching–learning processes of mathematics at all levels of education. Our study is based on a recent categorisation of students’ mistakes, together with the creation of a new representation tool, called MAD+, that can combine all this information. The ma…
Recursos informáticos para el aprendizaje de las matemáticas mediante metáforas musicales: el proceso de creación y evaluación de PicaLab.
2018
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)…
Effects of Topic Familiarity on Analogical Transfer in Problem-Solving: A Think-Aloud Study of Two Singular Cases
2015
We conducted a qualitative research of case studies based on think-aloud protocols. The aim was to carry out in-depth analyse secondary students¿ cognitive difficulties appearing in early stages of transfer processes in problem-solving. The task was to relate several source problems to a target problem, in order to solve it effectively. Source and target problems had different Surface and/or Structural similarities. In this paper, the solvers¿ high or low Familiarity with the problem stories on transfer processes was also focused on. Two emergent instructional phenomena are described, both associated to specific students¿ cognitive obstacles to achieve success in solving the target problem:…
La Prova Cangur en la Comunitat Valenciana
2009
[EN] The Kangaroo competition, with more than five million participants, has become during the last years one of the main channels to disseminate Mathematics around the young people around the world. In this note we describe the Kangaroo competition and we comment some of its characteristics in the Valencian Community.