Identificación de talento matemático en niños y niñas de 10 a 12 años de edad de una escuela fiscomisional de la ciudad de Cariamanga, durante el año electivo 2012 - 2013

Abstract

The research work was performed at a school in the city of Cariamanga, with the aim of identifying mathematical talent in boys and girls between 10-12 years of age, belonging to the sixth and seventh year of basic general education during the school year 2012 - 2013. The research design was descriptive and transversal, with a sample of 60 students. The instruments used for data collection were: the screening phase, sociodemographic survey, prepared by the gifted group of the School of Psychology at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Screening questionnaires to identify mathematical talent, Primary Mental Abilities Test (PMA) of Thurstone and Teacher nomination scale; and the Instruments of the Diagnostic phase: Questionnaire solving mathematical problems. The results show that students in the control group and the experimental one, are: 3 in logical reasoning, 6 in numerical and 3 in the space; giving a less than 50 percentile. In conclusion, it did not find mathematical talent, in this research.