Guía didáctica para el desarrollo de la Competencia Matemática en alumnos de décimo año de Educación General Básica Superior

Abstract

The current academic work, the making of a didactic guide to develop the mathematical competency for tenth year students in middle school, had as mainly purpose to make an educational guide, based on PISA investigation, which is an international assessment project for 15 years old students, when they have finished obligatory education, and passed to High School, through a written test designed to solve real life problems. The present guide to develop the mathematical competency shows new contextualized exercises, for students in middle school who lives in Latin America, and to be more specific in Ecuador, that finds out personal, social, academic, family situations, showed in math exercises with some specific problematic that require a mathematical operation to be solved. The making of the didactical guide began in JS middle School where I watched and teach mathematics in 8th, 9th, and 10th year, so that process was decontextualized. Then I looked for mathematical assessments in Ecuador and I realized that PISA entity has already done an evaluation in 2017 of the three mainly subjects as Mathematics, Science, and Language, however the results were the lowest in mathematics with 27% and that’s something I saw first-hand in JS middle School, as result of the decontextualized process of teaching-learning. The proposal splits in two parts, one is about the theatrical work, as math competency, PISA assessment and learning and teaching mathematics, the second part is a practical one where I`ve wrote and detailed math problems taking as reference Algebra and Geometry.