Modeling, a pedagogical resource for number thinking and meaningful learning

Abstract

The pedagogical and mathematical project, outlined in an action-research study, was based on the intention of integrating knowledge for the simulation of daily activities such as the purchase and sale of basic items of the family basket, helping in the appropriation, dynamization and enrichment of contents proper of the numerical thought, with students of Primary Basic Education, of a public school, of Bogota; the teaching intervention was planned, executed and evaluated annually. The investigative work had a mixed descriptive orientation, developed with a population of students, from second, third, fourth and fifth grades. The collection and systematization of information was carried out through the direct observation technique and the statistical processing of the data, derived from an evaluation instrument, designed for the students to express their own appreciations and learning, after developing and completing the activities, with a view to innovating practices in the classroom. The basic, stimulated and enhanced mathematical competencies, from numerical thinking, in the investigative work, were directed through actions typical of the context, simulated in the school space, in a creative way, achieving the recognition of the relevance of management and mastery numerical, in schoolboys.