Relaciones entre el conocimiento conceptual y el procedimental en el aprendizaje de las fracciones
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https://doi.org/10.18861/cied.2016.7.1.2573Keywords:
aprendizaje matemático, fracciones, conocimiento conceptual, conocimiento procedimental, niñosAbstract
El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar las relaciones entre el conocimiento conceptual y el procedimental de las fracciones durante su aprendizaje. Para esto se efectuó una búsqueda bibliográfica en las bases de datos ERIC, PsycInfo, Scielo y Redalyc, con los siguientes términos en español y sus equivalentes en inglés: fracciones (fractions), conocimiento conceptual (conceptual knowledge), conocimiento procedimental (procedural knowledge) y niños (children), combinados de diferente forma con el operador booleano AND (Y). Los resultados de esta búsqueda permitieron hallar quince artículos empíricos que pueden clasificarse en cuatro grupos de investigaciones: las que indican una relación bidireccional, las que sugieren una relación unidireccional, las que muestran cierta independencia o restricciones en su vinculación y, por último, las que señalan que las relaciones varían según los sujetos. Esta falta de acuerdo podría explicarse por ciertas diferencias metodológicas de los estudios, por ejemplo, diferencias en el grado de consolidación del conocimiento de las fracciones de los participantes, el sentido conceptual o la habilidad procedimental estudiada, el tipo de enseñanza matemática recibida, etc. Por ello se sugiere que, para profundizar la comprensión de las relaciones entre el conocimiento conceptual y procedimental de las fracciones, estos aspectos metodológicos deben ser controlados.
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