Matemáticas para Taeko : Cómo se aprenden (y se deberían enseñar) las matemáticas

In a scene from the animated film Only Yesterday (Studio Ghibli), the protagonist Taeko Okajima reminisces about the difficulties and frustrations she faced learning mathematics as a child. Instead of understanding, she encounters a teaching method based on rules and procedures to be memorized. But what would have happened to Taeko—and to all of us—if we had been taught mathematics differently? What if, instead of fear, repetition, and frustration, we had been inspired to develop curiosity, imagination, and a desire to understand the world? These are some of the questions that Pablo Beltrán-Pellicer, one of the leading experts in mathematics education, attempts to answer in this book. In it, he constructs a delicate epistolary relationship with this imaginary Taeko, reflecting the conversations that many teachers would have liked to have with their students. Letter by letter, Pablo Beltrán-Pellicer distills the results of the most recent research in mathematics education, while reflecting on the most common errors in traditional teaching, dismantling pedagogical myths and proposing new ways of approaching a discipline as fascinating as it is misunderstood.