(1240) HOW DO CURRENT STUDENTS FACE MATH PROBLEMS SOLVING?

摘要

Currently, the attitude of the student in front of what is taught to him has changed a lot, for them theprevious direct motivation is totally needed to study, their work capacity has gone down as well as thedepth of the different issues discussed. The online search leads to do an analysis very quickly,jumping from one thing to another, without stopping enough time in any of them. The ability of acorrect reasoning and a good understanding have been become secondary aspects, the goal is toobtain solutions quickly by using some established method, by applying something that surely thestudents have found in the Web. Then, we often find that, faced to a math problem for which aguideline has not been given, students stand around not knowing how to do. They have not strategiesto implement because nobody has taught them such kind of approach.That is the reason what our classes of mathematics should serve, more than ever, to lay thefoundation of reasoning, to teach them to be critical, to educate tackle problems whatever type theyare.We must repeatedly explain the mechanisms that, subconsciously, we use when we begin to solve aproblem although it may seem trivial to us, only common sense.