An empirical study on mathematical thinking of first-year university students in Chile

Abstract

This paper presents a brief contextualization of the educational system in Chile, identifying certain problems of education and specifically with mathematics in students who are in the process of transition from high school to university. Then, the main ideas that constitute the concept of Grundvorstellungen as a didactic discipline are presented. This study aims to develop a didactic analysis oriented to the mathematical thinking that students have about contents seen at school. For this purpose, a research design is presented that will investigate a group of first-year students from two private Chilean universities belonging to engineering careers.