Desarrollo del pensamiento lógico matemático en los niños de Primer Año de Educación General Básica, basado en la aplicación de software educativo

Abstract

This research work was aimed at the development of mathematical logical thinking to children in first grade of basic education, based on the application of educational software, in the “Dr. Edmundo Carbo” School in the Guangaje parish, Pujilí canton. It was determined, the theoretical background, which supports the mathematical logical thinking in children 5 to 6 years of age, were used mathematical logician relations activities such as sorting, seriation, correspondence, patterns, and number; within the basic notions that children should acquire in space, time, ensemble, and number; through fieldwork and direct observation in the fourth and fifth curricular block in the school year 2014-2015, which allowed the development of educational software as teaching resource, useful as a teaching tool in performing of the aforementioned blocks and practical for children to perform the exercises in each topic; in order to establish, if it is appropriate, the use of Computer, questions were made to the person responsible of first grade, to define the difficulty in activities of logical reasoning a questionnaire was applied to the 21 students in first grade and cognitive activities, these parameters allow comparison with the results obtained in test in the fourth and fifth block using educational software; it can be concluded that the improvement achieved in the activities of mathematical logical reasoning as: classification 24%, 4% in the armed of puzzles, 57% in ordination, in seriation exercises and correspondence was improved by 19%; therefore there is a significant improvement and it is suggested that the institution continue using this software with students in first grade, as an educational tool in the performance of fourth- and fifth-curricular block.