Identificación de talento matemático en niños y niñas de 10 a 12 años de edad en una escuela fiscal mixta ubicada en la parroquia de Puembo, durante el año lectivo 2014-2015

Abstract

The current research work is entitled “identification of mathematical skills in 12 year old children from a public school located in the town of Puembo, during the 2014-2015 school year.” The goal was to identify kids with mathematical talent, the population included 30 sixth graders and 30 seventh graders. The work was characterized for using a non-experimental quantitative, descriptive, and transverse method; including the socio- demographical traits of the children’s families by using the survey for the identification process. Two stages were developed; first, the children were evaluated with the following psycho- pedagogical tools: screening questionnaire, Raven’s test, and “Math teachers’ nomination” which was made by the teachers themselves. For the second stage, only the children who reached the selection criteria were taken into account, and they were applied the questionnaire for math problems solving, from which it was concluded as a definite diagnosis that the researched population doesn’t have children with mathematical skills.