PNA: Revista de Investigación en Didáctica de la Matemática (Jan 2016)

Caracterización del significado de múltiplo por maestros en formación

  • Ángel López,
  • Encarnación Castro,
  • María C. Cañadas

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 111 – 134

Abstract

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This paper is part of a wider study focused on divisibility. Participants were prospective elementary teachers. One of the aims of the research is to characterize the meanings of multiple shown by prospective teachers. In this paper, we present the results concerning this aim. We analyse the productions of 37 prospective elementary teachers collected in a practice session, designed and developed in the context of a teaching experiment. We characterize the meanings through the following elements of the didactic analysis: conceptual structure, representation systems and phenomenology. Prospective teachers showed mostly three meanings of multiple: product, relationship and dividend in an exact division.

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