Markov chains and digital technologies: reflections on the construction of students’ knowledge in degree in Mathematics teaching

Abstract:

The article shows the essence doctoral research that investigated the process of construction of mathematical concepts by students who made use of the Digital Technologies. The audience participating in this phase of the survey were students of the undergraduate degree in Mathematics Teaching (called ‘Licenciatura’ in Brazil) from a federal teaching institution. The inspiration for the organization and methodological course is the Didactic Engineering of M. Artigue and it was used as theoretical reference to analyze the production of the participants the theory of reflective abstraction of J. Piaget. Through the didactic experiment in the present research it is inferred that the use of Digital Technologies gave the participants the opportunity to develop and maintain forms of thought which allowed each one of them to construct and develop their own meanings for the study of mathematical concepts.

Keywords:
Mathematics teaching; Higher education; Learning; Didactic engineering; Digital technology