Didactic strategy to promote logical-mathematical thinking in middle school students

Abstract

The research was based on investigating a didactic strategy that favors mathematical logical thinking to solve reasoning problems, through playful activities, which implies the incorporation of the game, so that the middle school students of the Ibarra Educational Unit # 2 of the Chone canton They will have quality learning. A diagnosis was made through field research, observing, and analyzing the difficulties encountered in mathematics; Topics from different authors were studied. The objective was to evaluate a didactic strategy to favor mathematical logical thinking, its quantitative approach and analytical methods were used - synthetic, inductive - deductive, statistical, surveys were applied to teachers, parents and observation sheet to teachers and students. The process of teaching mathematics requires learning that allows comprehensive problem solving that develops logical thinking, for which a didactic strategy such as playful activities is proposed, in which mental calculation is developed through a game guide. interactive. As a result, recreational activities were obtained as a didactic strategy that favors mathematical logical thinking, allowing students to be actors of their own knowledge with a high development of reasoning.