Abstract

AROCA, Armando. ARITHMETIC IN A REGION OF NORTHEASTERN COLOMBIA. rev.udcaactual.divulg.cient. [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.2, pp.553-561. ISSN 0123-4226.

An arithmetic exists for human activities and only makes sense for the exchange of the products produces or mobilized by it. The objective of this research was to analyze the arithmetic in a specific region of a small Colombian town. Both processes and algorithms being employed by adults to make calculations in some trades were identified and the degree of participation of children in these activities was determined, which could relate to what appeals in math classes as reality. Here there is aright the problem, referred to when mentioned that mathematics has sense if it is linked with reality. The methodology used was basically of qualitative ethnographic type, which strategies for data collection consisted of informal interviews, observations of activities and the use of google earth. The results show that it is possible to determine when a child is linked specifically to the activities of its surrounding sociocultural environment in the sense of understanding the processes and algorithms used in these calculations.

Keywords : Arithmetic; relation to reality; socio-cultural context; school context; ethnomathematics.

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