An educative experience aimed at the development of proportional reasoning
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The teaching of mathematics, direct proportionality, constant of proportionality.Abstract
The objective of this article is to understand how proportional reasoning is developed in 6th-grade students, especially in terms of the distinction between situations that either involve or not direct proportionality. The teaching experience is composed by five tasks based on the short story The rabbit and the turtle, carried out in groups inside the classroom, and later discussed collectively by the whole class.
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