Keywords
students
higher education
modelling
problem solving
learning resources
study
sciences
reasoning competencia matemática
estudiantes
educación superior
modelación
resolución de problemas
recursos de aprendizaje
estudio
ciencias
razonamiento
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Abstract
The research goal was to analyze how the use of research papers can be a pedagogical strategy of active learning based on inquiry that helps mathematics students in the construction of proofs. The study was carried out under a qualitative methodological paradigm with an interpretive approach. The data were collected during a mathematical modeling course in a mathematician training program at a public university in southeastern Mexico. Nine students participated in this study and the course teacher. The data were analyzed based on the codification of the students' reasoning and strategies in their proof construction process in relation to the five components that structure a mathematical proficiency and the cycle of the four experiential learning modes. The use of research papers played an essential role in adaptive reasoning, the generation of arguments and the integration of students’ knowledge when constructing their mathematical proofs on the positivity of a system of differential equations solutions and even helped to overcome such difficulties like understanding some theorems involved in proofs.
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