Identifying Data 2023/24
Subject (*) Learning difficulties in Mathematics. Practical approach Code 652513222
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Didácticas Específicas
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 2nd four-month period
First Optional 3
Language
Galician
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Pedagoxía e Didáctica
Coordinador
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Lecturers
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General description

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A1 To know the theoretical basis of interdisciplinary work and identify its centre of interest in school and non-school contexts.
A2 To identify and critically analyse interdisciplinary proposals in the educational world.
A3 To design, justify and evaluate in a systematic manner interdisciplinary proposals in different educational contexts.
A8 To be able to defend and argue in oral and written ways the completed investigation and/or innovation work, using audio-visual aids.
A9 To test and evaluate disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching projects in real educational contexts and to promote suggestions for improvement related to the obtained results.
A11 To know and understand scientific language and use it correctly in different ways of expression and communication.
A15 To identify quality and control criteria both in research and in the teaching practice, encouraging a critical, reflective and innovative spirit.
A16 To design, justify and evaluate research and innovation projects in the field of Specific Didactics.
A17 To select, adapt and apply materials, resources and ICTs to improve the teaching and learning in different disciplinary fields.
B1 To have and understand general knowledge to establish foundations and /or opportunities to stand out in the development and implementation of ideas, mainly in an action- research context.
B2 To be able to apply the acquired foundations and their problem-solving capabilities in new multidisciplinary contexts related to the specific research areas.
B3 To be able to join contents and accept the challenge to formulate complex statements out of a limited or incomplete information, including reflections about social and ethic responsibilities related to the application of their own knowledge and opinions.
B4 To be able to transfer and communicate their conclusions and opinions in a clear and straight manner both in a specialized and a non-specialized audience.
B5 To have the required learning abilities to continue in a life-long-learning and autonomous process.
B6 To be able to analyse and synthesize.
B7 To be able to adapt to new situations.
B8 To work with initiative and in an autonomous way.
B9 To work in a collaborative way.
B10 To be able to organize and plan in curricular and cross-curricular subjects.
B11 To be able to innovate (creativity) within educational and non-educational contexts.
B12 to behave with ethics and with social and environmental responsibility as a teacher and/or researcher.
B13 To be able to communicate with their peers, educational community and with society in general in the field of their areas of knowledge.
B14 To incorporate ICTs for the research process, information management, data analysis and for transferability.
B15 To be able to update knowledge, methodologies and strategies in their teaching practices
C1 To express correctly, both orally and in written texts, in the two co-official languages of the Autonomous Community.
C3 To use the main ICT’s basic tools for their professional development and for their life-long-learning process.
C4 To be able to self-develop for an open, critical, committed, democratic and solidary citizenship.
C6 To critically value available knowledge, technology and information to solve problems which students must face.
C7 To assume as a professional and as a citizen the importance of life-long-learning.
C8 To value the importance that research, innovation and technical developments have on society’s socio-economical and cultural progress.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Coñecer e analizar as dificultadas asociadas aos distintos tipos de linguaxe e a súa interrelación na educación matemática. AJ1
AJ2
AJ8
AJ11
AJ16
AJ17
BJ6
BJ7
BJ8
BJ10
BJ13
BJ14
BJ15
CJ1
CJ3
CJ4
CJ6
CJ7
CJ8
Coñecer os principios, técnicas e recursos didácticos para dar resposta ás dificultadas asociadas ao uso das distintas linguaxes en matemáticas. AJ3
AJ9
BJ1
BJ2
BJ3
BJ4
BJ5
BJ11
BJ12
CJ1
CJ8
Coñecer a influencia das compoñentes afectivas no proceso de ensino-aprendizaxe da matemática. AJ2
AJ3
AJ8
AJ11
AJ15
BJ6
BJ7
BJ9
BJ12
BJ13
CJ1
CJ3
CJ4
CJ6
CJ7
CJ8
Adquirir a capacidade de resolver situacións prácticas relativas ás dificultades da aprendizaxe da matemática. AJ1
AJ2
AJ3
AJ8
AJ9
AJ16
AJ17
BJ6
BJ7
BJ9
BJ10
BJ11
BJ12
BJ13
BJ15
CJ1
CJ4
CJ6
CJ7
CJ8

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
As linguaxes da matemática
Importancia do uso simultáneo de linguaxes distintas na actividade matemática.

A linguaxe verbal

A linguaxe simbólica

A linguaxe gráfica
Compoñentes afectivos.
Actitudes cara as matemáticas

Ansiedade matemática

Influencia das compoñentes afectivas no desempeño matemático
Análise e estudo de casos prácticos. Dificultades en contexto

Resposta ás dificultades

Metacognición en matemáticas

Tarefas auténticas e tarefas estándar

Implementación práctica de actividades metacognitivas na aula

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Document analysis A11 A15 A17 B3 B5 B8 B15 C3 C6 0 15 15
Collaborative learning A3 A8 A16 A17 B1 B2 B3 B5 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 C1 8 8 16
Directed discussion A8 A11 A15 A17 B4 B6 B9 B12 B13 3 5 8
Research (Research project) A1 A2 A3 A8 A9 A11 A15 A16 A17 B1 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 C1 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 5 20 25
Oral presentation A8 A11 B6 B10 B13 C1 1 3 4
Introductory activities A1 A2 B2 B6 4 2 6
 
Personalized attention 1 0 1
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Document analysis Utilización de documentos de toda tipoloxía, aplicables e relacionados coas didácticas específicas (primarias, secundarias e terciarias: arquivísticos, bibliográficos, audiovisuais, hemerográficos, arqueolóxicos, orais, textuais, literarias, etc.) relevantes para a temática da materia con actividades especificamente deseñadas para o traballo coas mesmas.
Collaborative learning Realización de traballos en grupos.
Directed discussion Posta en común dos contidos analizados nas fontes documentáis.
Discusión sobre a súa aplicabilidade.
Research (Research project) Proceso orientado á aprendizaxe do alumnado mediante a realización de actividades de carácter práctico a través das que se propoñen situacións que requiren ao estudante identificar un problema obxecto de estudo, formulalo con precisión, desenvolver os procedementos pertinentes, interpretar os resultados e sacar as conclusións oportunas do traballo realizado.
Oral presentation Exposición verbal, coa utilización dos recursos expositivos adecuados, que debe reflectir todas as fases do proceso de creación e desenvolvemento dos traballos titelados.
Introductory activities Presentación das liñas xerais da materia e toma de contacto cos estudantes, os seus intereses e expectativas.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Research (Research project)
Description

Orientación dos grupos de estudantes na realización do traballo.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Research (Research project) A1 A2 A3 A8 A9 A11 A15 A16 A17 B1 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 C1 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 Traballo en equipo ou individual sobre un tema de interese.
Terase en conta a dificultade do tema elixido, a metodoloxía seguida na súa realización, a exposición dos resultados atopados e a argumentación das conclusións, entre outras cousas.
60
Oral presentation A8 A11 B6 B10 B13 C1 O alumnado terá que facer a presentación oral e defensa dun traballo.
Terase en conta a corrección na expresión oral, capacidade de síntese, capacidades comunicativas, así como a corrección e argumentación das respostas e a súa adecuación ás posibles cuestións que se formulen.
10
Collaborative learning A3 A8 A16 A17 B1 B2 B3 B5 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 C1 Terase en conta a participación razoada, a realización razoada das tarefas e a aportación ás dinámicas de grupo. 30
 
Assessment comments

Non se admite a dispensa académica de exención de docencia.

Se o
estudante non chega a unha asistencia do 80% das clases presenciales
deberá ser evaluado por unha proba
individual.

Nos traballos de avaliación que se entreguen, os
contidos incluidos deben estar apropiadamente referenciados
ao longo
do traballo e no apartado de referencias usando certas
normas. O
texto literal debe declararse usando ditas normas. No
parafraseado deben figurar
as fontes orixinais das ideas que se reelaboran. A presencia
de fontes
científicas no traballo é un signo de credibilidade que é un
requisito
imprescindible para demostrar a excelencia académica.


Recoméndase consultar:

http://www.udc.es/biblioteca/servizos/apoio_investigacion/servizos_apoio/publicar/citar.html


Tense que evitar o plaxio.


As citas e as referencias a calquera texto debe declararse,
o uso literal do
texto ou ideas doutros autores parafraseadas sen declarar a
fonte supón o
suspenso do traballo en aplicación do artigo 14.4 da NORMAS DE AVALIACIÓN, REVISIÓN E
RECLAMACIÓN DAS CUALIFICACIÓNS DOS ESTUDOS DE GRAO E
MESTRADO UNIVERSITARIO, aprobada polo
Consello de Goberno do
19 de decembro de 2013 e modificada o 29 de xaneiro de 2015, na
que se indica que "na realización de traballos,
o plaxio e a utilización de material non orixinal, incluído
aquel obtido a
través de internet, sen indicación expresa da súa
procedencia e, se é o caso, o
permiso do seu autor/a, poderá ser considerada causa de
cualificación de suspenso
na actividade".


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Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Difficulties in Mathematics. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 2007. http://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Research_and_Advocacy/research_brief_and_clips/Research_brief_02_-_Effective_Strategies.pdf

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Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments

Recoméndase os envíos dos traballos telemáticamente e, de non ser posible, non utilizar plásticos. Elixir a impresión a doble cara, empregar papel reciclado e evitar imprimir borradores.

Débese facer un uso sostible dos recursos e a prevención de impactos negativos sobre o medio natural.

Débese ter en conta a importancia dos principios éticos relacionados cos valores da sostenibilidade nos comportamentos persoais e profesionais.



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