The conferences took place on December 12 and 13 and were organized by the Chilean Society of Mathematical Education and the Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt headquarters.

The Chilean Society of Mathematical Education and the Austral University of Chile carried out the XXIII version of the National Conference on Mathematics Education, an activity that included the participation of an academic and a student from the University of La Serena, as well as teachers from different places in the country, who were part of the various conferences, workshops, research reports and successful classroom experiences, to address and reflect on mathematics teaching-learning phenomena.

In this context, the academic of the Department of Mathematics, Diego Contreras, participated with the presentation of the classroom experience: “A didactic proposal: application of semiotic representation registers in linear algebra”, an initiative that is part of the curricular renewal of the Mining Engineering and Mechanical Engineering careers of the university.

“It is important to enhance the competencies that the new study programs focus on, which are sometimes little considered in the development of the subjects. In this particular case, we sought to place the mathematical object of systems of linear equations in a real context close to the students,” explained Professor Contreras.

Along with what was explained by the academic, the Mathematics and Computing Pedagogy student, Paulette Roco, presented the poster “The construction of origami and tessellations as a tool for the teaching-learning process of composition of isometric transformations.”

"This work is part of what was done in the subject Mathematics Education Project, where the aim was to locate a problem present in the classrooms, and through an innovative proposal, generate interest and motivation on the part of the students to generate meaningful learning," the student stated.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom