Recuerdos, expectativas y concepciones de los estudiantes para maestro sobre la geometría escolar

Abstract

Several studies have shown the importance of prospective teachers' conceptions about mathematics and its teaching-learning during their educational process. They indicate that to learn to teach mathematics we must take into account the demands that originate from our own conceptions of school-level mathematics, since these are stable and resistant to change.

On the basis of this idea, we have developed a study aimed at describing and analysing prospective primary teachers' conceptions about school-level geometry and its teaching-learning. To this end, we considered the hypothesis that the students' memories and expectations provide information with which to characterize prospective primary teachers' conceptions in the field of geometry and its teaching-learning at primary school level.