No. 67 (2019): Número 67 - junio 2019
Artículos

NeuroLearning in teaching mathematics: a new educational proposal

Edwin Rivera-Rivera
Universidad de Puerto Rico

Published 2019-06-01

Keywords

  • Brain functions,
  • Neuroscience,
  • Learning,
  • Math teaching,
  • Research in math,
  • Memory
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Abstract

This article introduces Neuro-Learning through sample studies and researches carried out in the area of mathematics. In like manner, it introduces this new science which people had not thought of before; currently, it is more profoundly visualized in the teaching-learning process of mathematics. The figure of the teacher and how his well-formed knowledge on the way students learn are given great emphasis since he can use this knowledge to better carry out his work as a teacher. Here, the brain is seen as the human organ that can be gradually strengthened for people´s own benefit. All studies carried out until today show us that this science of “learning how to learn” will change the way how people face and focus on the diversity of problems and events that we must know in order to improve the entire educational, psychological and biological process.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11298/979
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v0i67.7498

Keywords: Brain functions, Neuroscience, Learning, Math Teaching, Research in math, Memory.

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