Enrique Carmona Medeiro

This study focuses on exploring students’ emerging difficulties during a problem posing task in an early childhood education classroom (4–5 years old). Through a single case study, and by considering the problems posed as an indicator of the students’ mathematical performance level, the difficulties inherent in the process of posing problems based on a given situation are characterised. The results reveal the existence of difficulties both in the exploration phase of the problem situation and in posing the problems themselves. This shows that the main difficulties are related to a lack of accuracy in language, which is typical of this stage, and to the notion of a non-mathematical problem that prevails in the students.

Esta investigación se centró en la gestión de aula que una maestra realiza durante una tarea de formulación de problemas con alumnado de Educación Infantil (4-5 años). Mediante un estudio de caso único, nos enfocamos en identificar las demandas matemáticas que la maestra establece para favorecer el avance en la formulación de un problema, la actividad del alumnado que las detona y las relaciones entre ambas. Los resultados indican que la mayoría de las demandas matemáticas están orientadas a favorecer el desarrollo del contexto del problema y, revelan que las dificultades que las detonan están ligadas al significado no matemático de problema que prevalece en el alumnado.

Readers of the journal Education Sciences probably agree that playing games comes naturally—we all know how to play some game—however, because of the complexity of gaming, it is almost exclusively limited to mammals with regard to all animals: almost 80% of mammals use some sort of game for learning

This study aims to identify the set of elements in the educational process that affect the creation of a teaching profile consistent with the principles of sustainability. In this research, we focus on identifying those sustainability attributes related to understanding social interaction and its role in the learning process of logical-mathematical knowledge. Social interaction is an essential part of the principle of collaboration. The study participants were 133 future teachers, students of the degree in Early Childhood Education at the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain). Qualitative methods and techniques were used to collect data, and mixed methods and techniques were employed for their analysis. The data relating to the student’s perception of the importance of social interaction in learning were gathered through the final reports produced by the students. The data were processed by classifying them into categories and subcategories. The meaning condensation method used enabled identifying 33 sustainability attributes linked to socio-cultural learning. Those attributes identify and describe the internal dynamics of cooperative learning and show the synergies and interrelationships between social interactions, socio-cognitive conflict and language. The results stress the importance of a meaningful understanding of the role of social interaction in learning in order to promote the principles of sustainability.

Desde una visión humanista de la educación y con el anhelo de contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad de mujeres y hombres autorrealizados; entendemos que la resolución de problemas constituye una propuesta idónea en la enseñanza de las matemáticas y el contexto favorable para promover el desarrollo integral del alumnado, generando tanto oportunidades de aprendizaje como oportunidades de desarrollo socioemocional. Considerando como detonantes el error matemático y las dificultades afectivas que se despiertan en el propio aprendizaje, se plantea la necesidad de solventar la deuda histórica de la enseñanza de las matemáticas, a partir de un planteamiento que integre la componente emocional al proceso educativo.