Fortalecimiento del pensamiento crítico de estudiantes de educación media. Una experiencia desde el aula de matemáticas en el marco de la pandemia COVID 19

Abstract

The objective of this study was to strengthen the critical thinking of eleventh grade students of an educational institution in Colombia, in the municipality of Madrid-Cundinamarca, through the approach of critical mathematics. The research was qualitative within the framework of action research. Four phases were carried out for the execution of the research: identification, understanding of the problem, reaction and reflection. Based on the work proposal, the participants were interested in studying the situation generated by the Covid19 pandemic, specifically with regard to vaccination and its effect on their environment. From this, it became evident that by involving in the mathematics classroom problems or situations with which the students feel identified, critical thinking was strengthened since the participants became interested in a problem situation autonomously and chosen by themselves, deepened their understanding and reacted to it; in this way, confronting false beliefs about vaccination and from there impacting the people surveyed.