Abstract:

One of the greatest difficulties for teachers in the area of mathematics is to ensure that students are motivated in classes and are encouraged to learn this course. The lack of commitment of the families in the formative process, the economic conditions and the remoteness of some rural institutions have an impact on low academic performance and unsatisfactory results in internal and external tests. To capture students’ attention, achieve their motivation and improve the learning of mathematics students, it is necessary to propose methodologies that link students' attitudinal competencies and strengthen their critical capacity in the construction of their knowledge. It is sought that the student can understand, argue, represent and communicate the problem situations and their possible solutions. This work shows how the construction and implementation of math laboratories turns the classroom into a playful and experimental place, improving pedagogical practices, getting the student to become an active subject in the educational process and improving the internal and external tests that the Colombian state does to the fifth grade students of the Santa Teresita Higher Normal Educational Institution of the Municipality of Sopetrán, Antioquia. The laboratories contain games designed mathematically from existing games, storytelling with historical data and mathematical sense, use of concrete material and new technologies, which allow the construction of fundamental concepts. This proposal seeks that students be the center of learning and that both they and teachers have tools for the implementation of laboratories as a methodology that makes the critical capacity, understanding and motivation of the student viable. Each laboratory is proposed with a guide for the student and one for the teacher; the latter includes a theoretical foundation, didactic orientations and four class moments: opening or exploration, development or structuring, independent and cooperative work, closing and to learn more.

Keywords:

Mathematics laboratory, teaching and learning strategies.