Què és més rodó?

Authors

  • Miquel Albertí Palmer

Abstract

From a constructivist viewpoint of learning, definitions and theorems are not the beginning but the end of a process that mathematics students should experience in order to build their own learning. Bymeans of several experiences in a first year secondary education classroom,we show how the definitions of circle and degree of roundness are created. Both definitions are used to find out which of the following is rounder, a quail egg or a chicken egg. Under the guidance of the teacher, the social interactionwith classmates and successive approximations of examples and counterexamples, students are able to specify and create both the definition of circle and the degree of roundness. Thework finisheswith an analysis of the didactic implications of the process with respect to future secondary education courses.

Published

2016-06-22

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