¿A mi de qué me sirve medir la sombra de un árbol en un futuro? Una mirada a las razones de un grupo de estudiantes para involucrarse en las clases de matemáticas a partir de un ambiente de modelación desde una perspectiva socio-crítica.

Abstract

In the paper I report extensively on the reasons for getting involved in the mathematics class of two groups of 11th graders in their previous years and what happened with those reasons versus math class when I invited them to develop a project of mathematical modeling from the socio-perspectiveThis was the main objective of this research. For this master thesis I chose the critical paradigm as a research methodology (Skovsmose and Borba, 2004), which allowed me to obtain results in which I found that students have a variety of reasons to get involved in the mathematics class, Among which there are social or instrumental reasons (Melliin-Olsen, 2002) and in which, in addition, the future becomes more important (Skovsmose, 2014, Biotto, 2015), the context (Valero, 2002) and the intentions (Skovsmose, 1999) of the students.