Didactic structuring of the comprehension when word problems solving

Estructuración didáctica de la comprensión en la solución de problemas aritméticos verbales

Abstract

The research starts from recognizing the limitations of the approach that explains understanding as a phase of the word problems solving, an epistemological position from which the theoretical models, more accepted and disseminated internationally, have been built and, in which it is structured didactically each of the phases that compose it. From the assumption of the transversal approach to understanding when word problems solving, which conceives the latter as texts and, to their solution as a process of textual comprehension, the didactic structuring that is offered was elaborated. For this, the use of theoretical methods was useful, such as analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and functional structural systemic modeling. The new proposal, in general terms, resides in the resizing of the sub-processes of understanding to the word problems solving, which generates that it becomes a valuable tool for teachers and students, while enriching the conception and instrumentation of the process and the class of words problems solving.