Resolução de situações-problemas do campo conceitual multiplicativo: o cálculo relacional e o numérico

Elisângela Bastos de Mélo Espindola; Isabela Fernanda Melo de Moura

doi:10.5007/1981-1322.2017v12n2p82

Solving problem situations of the multiplicative conceptual field: the relational and numeric calculus

Authors

Elisângela Bastos de Mélo Espindola Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3769-0768
Isabela Fernanda Melo de Moura Universidade de Pernambuco - UPE http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-5326

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1981-1322.2017v12n2p82

Abstract

We introduce the results of a study whose objective wasto identifythe difficulties the students from the sixth grade of Junior High School have about the relational and numeric calculusin solving Problem Situations of the Multiplicative Conceptual field (MCF). This study is based on Vergnaud Theory of Conceptual fields (1990). Among the methodological procedures, a hundred fifty students from Recife’s Public school have been required to answer five Problem Situations. Two of Quarternary relation (simple proportion) and three of ternary relation (multiplicative comparison and measure product). The results indicate a great number of scores in Problem situations of the axis Simple proportion, while the Problem situations of the axis Multiplicative comparison (search for the referent) and the axis Measure products (combinatory) have been the ones the students showed more difficulties to answer. In general, the difficulties of the students have been bigger in the relational calculus than in numeric.

Author Biographies

Elisângela Bastos de Mélo Espindola, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE

Professora do Departamento de Educação da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. Área Métodos e Técnicas.

Isabela Fernanda Melo de Moura, Universidade de Pernambuco - UPE

Licenciada em Matemática pela Universidade de Pernambuco- campus Nazaré da Mata.

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2018-04-18

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2017)

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