Looking for a method for teaching mathematics

reviewing some classics

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2021.24464

Keywords:

Teaching, Shared experience, Method, Dialogical relationship, Heuristic

Abstract

This essay explores, through contributions from philosophers and educators, the possibility of building a method for teaching Mathematics, which obviously is not intended to be definitive. This is the aim of the study. To this end, elements such as the triad formed by interest, shared experience and individual initiative; the heuristic method; the hierarchical sequence that exists between the dialogical relationship and experience; and the interconnection between them, through examples of application, are examined. Also, there is a brief look at the practice of love in education, which is a common operator that should be present in any teaching method. The text is finished with the suggestion that love for what one does and the affection one gives are the most powerful agents of transformation that a method can have.

Author Biography

  • Walter Walker Janzen, Fundación Educacional Intraeduc, Santiago, Chile.

    Profesor de Estado en Matemática (USACH), Magister en Educación (USACH – Columbia University), y Doctor en Pedagogía (Universidad Ramón Llull, Barcelona). Académico e investigador. Su línea de investigación actual está focalizada en el área “Educación en contextos vulnerables”. Ha dictado cursos en Educación Matemática y Educación en Universidades chilenas y extranjeras. Al presente, en Gestión Curricular de la Fundación Educacional Intraeduc, Chile.

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2021-03-24

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Looking for a method for teaching mathematics: reviewing some classics. Revista Docência do Ensino Superior, Belo Horizonte, v. 11, p. 1–18, 2021. DOI: 10.35699/2237-5864.2021.24464. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/24464. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.