Estrategia metodológica basada en el método lúdico para el desarrollo de las habilidades del pensamiento matemático de los estudiantes de cuarto grado de la Escuela de Educación Básica Ciudad de Zaruma

Abstract

This study investigated how to develop the mathematical thinking skills of fourth grade students of the Ciudad de Zaruma Basic Education School, due to the difficulties presented in the teaching-learning process of mathematics. From a quantitative methodology, the historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, hypothetical-deductive and systemic methods were used as theoretical methods. Among the empirical methods, the structured interview, non-participant observation and the pedagogical test were used. The results were: students with difficulty to select and apply a variety of strategies to solve mathematical problems, to argue, to check and to validate results, inadequacies in the connection with ideas and formal mathematical processes.