The game as a teaching strategy to develop numerical thinking in the four basic operations

Abstract

This article is the result of a research by teachers member of the Research Group of mathematical Education, del Quindio University (GEMAUQ), in which various skills and relationships were developed to familiarize and reinforce the basic operations, (addition, subtraction, product, and quotient), in students taking grade fifth, assuming that game plays a core role among the many activities performed by the child. The didactic strategy consisted of working a series of activities and/or games in each mathematic operation, and a combination of such activities, as well as in problem solving, which implementation led to improve and increase motivation and interest of students in the proposed topic. It is once again ratified that, teaching mathematics by using the game as a didactic strategy in replacement of conventional didactic methods in the classroom, transform the teaching-learning process, and how teachers and students achieve knowledge on the four basic operations of numerical thought.