La dimensión gestual en la generalización de patrones en estudiantes de cuarto grado de educación primaria

Abstract

This document documents the identification and characterization of the gestures used by fourth grade students of primary basic education of the Monseñor Manuel María Camargo Gymnasium, as a support to the process of algebraic generalization of patterns. For this, this work is based on the framework of the cultural theory of objectification and takes as a methodological framework multimodal analysis (Arzarello, 2006). Taking into account the theoretical and methodological framework, four tasks associated with figurative sequences with tabular support are designed. The implementation and analysis of the results of the proposal show that students reach an algebraic generalization of factual type that is evidenced by gestures such as: indexical, figural, formulaic and algorithmic imagination. The present investigation reveals that in the process of objectification of knowledge students can employ various semiotic means of objectification, not only the written discourse but also the gesture and the oral discourse.