Enseñanza de ecuaciones lineales mediante la modelación matemática, la gamificación y la resolución de problemas retadores en estudiantes de grado octavo del colegio Gustavo Restrepo

Abstract

Teaching of linear equations through mathematical modeling, gamification and the resolution of challenging problems in eighth grade students of the Gustavo Restrepo School constitutes a contribution to mathematical didactics in the domain of algebra, regarding the teaching-learning of linear equations, integrating strategies and pedagogical methods with gamification processes, seeking to make the learning process autonomous in students, who by committing to play assume their own risk of learning accompanied by their peers and the teacher, in which a redefinition of roles occurs within the classroom and in the way of solving problems, with a starting point in everyday events mixed with playful activities designed to achieve learning, as if they were games. An action-research methodology framed in the qualitative paradigm is used and an innovative assessment system is used that follows the IDEAL problemsolving method. The results show that this didactic process, although it initially requires efforts on the part of the teacher, finally leads to a successful learning process in which all the students acted to overcome challenges, correctly attack the enemy, generate a strategy or manage well. resources among others, which was evaluated through descriptors such as the use of words, visual mediators, narratives and routines, and although each of the students independently solved the problems at a different pace, they all identified how the algebraic expressions are related with a real situation and how useful algebraic expressions are to solve new questions.