Propuesta para la enseñanza del concepto de área haciendo uso del método de exhaución

Abstract

This degree thesis is aimed to teach the concept of area by the method of exhaustion, from an analytical perspective on different heuristics which have submitted students when developing the sequence of activities, the thesis was carried out two students from grade 6th -9th respectively, in different schools of the Suba.

The tool used for the implementation of activities by students, it´s dynamic software that allows the manipulation and interaction with the situations that arise. Moreover, using this virtual tool it is done in order to make changes during development, allowing the student to understand better each activity.

The student strategies developed when there was a dynamic interaction between software, and student issues were taken into account only. that way you could get arguments settlement process, thus, analyze the different heuristics presented. in addition, educational interventions were analyzed in different situations and worked to restructure or guide the students in activities and topics to be worked, in order to observe changes in strategies or ratify an already constructed by the student.

One hypothesis at work was that students with a higher degree of reasoning raised and better developed their work, which was observed in this work is that the nature and interest in higher grades deteriorates over the years, by the different elements that have acquired (equations), which fail to relate to the activities, on the other hand in the lower grades greater interest to explore each concept, activity and improve turn heuristics presented shows.