Estrategia pedagógica para el fortalecimiento del pensamiento numérico en estudiantes de sexto grado de la I.E. Roque de Alba, Villanueva, La Guajira

Abstract

This research aimed to strengthen numerical thinking in sixth-grade students at the Roque de Alba Educational Institution in the Municipality of Villanueva, La Guajira, by implementing a pedagogical strategy that encourages the development of mathematical skills based on basic operations with natural numbers. The methodological design follows the positivist paradigm, developed under a mixed approach and non-experimental descriptive type, in a sample of 30 sixth-grade students. The Test technique was applied and the questionnaire was used as a collection instrument. When analyzing the data, it was found that several factors permeate numerical thinking. In this sense, a pedagogical proposal was consolidated with activities to improve basic operations, problem-solving, and numerical reasoning. At the beginning of the intervention, 60% (18 students) were at the low level, 30% (9 students) at the basic level, these being the lowest levels on the institutional evaluation scale. The two highest evaluation levels were achieved by only 7% (2 students) and 3% (1 student), respectively. Upon intervention, 50% (15 students) achieved a Higher level, 37% (11 students) achieved the High level, and 13% (1 student) remained at the Basic level. demonstrating that the use of ICT tools allowed students to make progress in the dimensions to be addressed.