Abstract

MEJIA, Cristina Calderón -  and  ALVAREZ, María Marta Camacho -. Pedagogical Mediation in Seventh Grade Geometry: Study Conducted in Costa Rica. InterSedes [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.32, pp.177-193. ISSN 2215-2458.

This article is based on the research called "Online Curriculum Proposal for the Teaching-Learning Processes of Seventh Grade Geometry", which had as its general objective to design an online course to facilitate pedagogical mediation strategies to seventh grade teachers for the teaching of Geometry. This subject is useful to develop the individual's cognitive understanding of the surrounding world, as it is one of the areas of Mathematics characterized for being more intuitive, concrete and linked to reality.

The research was based on the naturalistic or qualitative approach and consisted of a descriptive type of study; its research strategy was addressed in two different moments: the first one was a diagnosis stage and the second one was the research project itself, which encompassed a theoretical and practical approach to the problem, the analysis of the outcomes, a cross-check of these results with the theoretical information, the development and build up of the research report and design of the proposal.

The article contains a summary of the theoretical and methodological basis, the category analysis process and the main conclusions and recommendations deriving from this research work.

Keywords : geometry; mediation; pedagogical; mathematics; mathematics curriculum; didactic strategies.

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