Social epistemology and social practice. Towards a dynamic way of teaching differential calculus

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  • Alberto Camacho-Ríos Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2011.3.32

Keywords:

resignification, social epistemology, reference practices, social practices, sine function

Abstract

This investigation seeks to dynamize the teaching of some of the concepts of differential calculus in order to facilitate its comprehension. The dynamization set forth was achieved via the acknowledgment of topographic activities developed in different periods, created in the document as reference practices. The incorporation of these types of practices in teaching mathematics becomes necessary in the theoretical approximation known as social epistemology, given the lack of more organized models that lead the student to establish knowledge effectively through resignification. As an example of the work experimented with students, the use of anticipation as a social practice that regulates school activities of two cases related to trigonometric sine ratio were put forward and set out in the document.

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Author Biography

Alberto Camacho-Ríos, Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua II

Doctor of Sciences with specialty in Mathematics Education from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) at the national Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico. Professor of higher Mathematics Education at the Department of Basic Sciences at the Technological Institute of Chihuahua II. Research subjects: design of learning situations to improve teaching of higher-level mathematics; search in the history of mathematics of meanings associated to mathematics in school.

Published

2011-01-31

How to Cite

Camacho-Ríos, A. (2011). Social epistemology and social practice. Towards a dynamic way of teaching differential calculus. Revista Iberoamericana De Educación Superior, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2011.3.32

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