Análisis didáctico para estudiar la reflexión de profesores sobre modelización en álgebra

En la investigación conducente a una tesis doctoral, estudiamos cómo reflexionan sobre su enseñanza, profesores de matemáticas, mientras participan en un curso de formación. La reflexión comienza seleccionando un problema profesional. Una de las parejas de profesores se planteó profundizar en las dificultades que tienen los alumnos para traducir enunciados a expresiones algebraicas (que los profesores llaman modelización). Para poder interpretar la reflexión hemos realizado un análisis didáctico de la enseñanza del álgebra en el inicio de secundaria. En esta comunicación presentamos algunas apreciaciones sobre el papel de la modelización en álgebra y su relación con los diferentes “roles de las letras en álgebra”, que nos servirán para interpretar los planteamientos y reflexiones de los profesores

Practice and reflection of Chilean mathematics teachers from the perspective of lessons study

Dentro de un trabajo doctoral centrado en la reflexión del docente de matemáticas, consideramos la realización de un curso formativo cuya metodología se ciñó al estudio de clases japonés. Este trabajo pretende examinar elementos teóricos del estudio de clases y de la reflexión para ver su complementariedad, y apreciar como el estudio de clases es una buena herramienta para generar la reflexión de profesores en un curso formativo. Nos basamos en una metodología cualitativa para estudiar a dos profesoras de secundaria, considerando como dimensión las tareas matemáticas escolares dentro de dos ciclos de estudio de clases. Mostramos la relación que observamos en la literatura sobre los constructos para luego analizar en el curso formativo como se entrelazan, mostrando algunos resultados de la reflexión de los docentes dentro de los ciclos de estudio de clases realizados dentro del curso formativo implementado en Chile. La experiencia formativa nos muestra que el estudio de clases favorece en los docentes una mayor involucración en sus procesos de reflexión apoyando su desarrollo profesional. Observamos elementos de complementariedad entre la reflexión y el estudio de clases, donde este aporta con la práctica y el trabajo colaborativo de manera de incentivar el trabajo reflexivo de los profesores.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Desarrollo profesional del docente de matemáticas a través de sus tareas para el aula propuestas en un curso de formación

Parte de un trabajo doctoral, enmarcado dentro de la línea de formación de profesores, es analizar las tareas de enseñanza propuestas por docentes en un curso de formación realizado en Chile, en el año 2012, en donde sus participantes tienen que identificar un problema profesional referido a la enseñanza del álgebra y profundizar sobre el mismo diseñando, implementando y analizando tareas matemáticas para una clase. Luego de presentar algunos descriptores de las tareas, con una metodología cualitativa empleamos el análisis de contenido para describir la evolución de las tareas de enseñanza propuestas por dos profesoras participantes de este curso formativo. El análisis de los datos ponen de manifiesto cómo las docentes afrontan un problema de su práctica, incorporando nuevos elementos de actuación respecto al diseño de tareas, incrementando en sus conocimientos, en específico, en relación con la noción de modelación, avanzando en este proceso en su desarrollo profesional

Fermi surface instabilities at finite Temperature

We present a new method to detect Fermi surface instabilities for interacting systems at finite temperature. We first apply it to a list of cases studied previously, recovering already known results in a very economic way, and obtaining most of the information on the phase diagram analytically. As an example, in the continuum limit we obtain the critical temperature as an implicit function of the magnetic field and the chemical potential $T_c(\mu,h)$. By applying the method to a model proposed to describe reentrant behavior in $Sr_3Ru_2O_7$, we reproduce the phase diagram obtained experimentally and show the presence of a non-Fermi Liquid region at temperatures above the nematic phase.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure

Non-motor symptom burden in patients with Parkinson's disease with impulse control disorders and compulsive behaviours: results from the COPPADIS cohort.

The study was aimed at analysing the frequency of impulse control disorders (ICDs) and compulsive behaviours (CBs) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and in control subjects (CS) as well as the relationship between ICDs/CBs and motor, nonmotor features and dopaminergic treatment in PD patients. Data came from COPPADIS-2015, an observational, descriptive, nationwide (Spain) study. We used the validated Questionnaire for Impulsive-Compulsive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease-Rating Scale (QUIP-RS) for ICD/CB screening. The association between demographic data and ICDs/CBs was analyzed in both groups. In PD, this relationship was evaluated using clinical features and treatment-related data. As result, 613 PD patients (mean age 62.47 ± 9.09 years, 59.87% men) and 179 CS (mean age 60.84 ± 8.33 years, 47.48% men) were included. ICDs and CBs were more frequent in PD (ICDs 12.7% vs. 1.6%, p < 0.001; CBs 7.18% vs. 1.67%, p = 0.01). PD patients had more frequent previous ICDs history, premorbid impulsive personality and antidepressant treatment (p < 0.05) compared with CS. In PD, patients with ICDs/CBs presented younger age at disease onset, more frequent history of previous ICDs and premorbid personality (p < 0.05), as well as higher comorbidity with nonmotor symptoms, including depression and poor quality of life. Treatment with dopamine agonists increased the risk of ICDs/CBs, being dose dependent (p < 0.05). As conclusions, ICDs and CBs were more frequent in patients with PD than in CS. More nonmotor symptoms were present in patients with PD who had ICDs/CBs compared with those without. Dopamine agonists have a prominent effect on ICDs/CBs, which could be influenced by dose

CIBERER : Spanish national network for research on rare diseases: A highly productive collaborative initiative

Altres ajuts: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.CIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedicated to the main public health priorities in the National Health System. CIBERER, the thematic area of CIBER focused on rare diseases (RDs) currently consists of 75 research groups belonging to universities, research centers, and hospitals of the entire country. CIBERER's mission is to be a center prioritizing and favoring collaboration and cooperation between biomedical and clinical research groups, with special emphasis on the aspects of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular research of RDs. This research is the basis for providing new tools for the diagnosis and therapy of low-prevalence diseases, in line with the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) objectives, thus favoring translational research between the scientific environment of the laboratory and the clinical setting of health centers. In this article, we intend to review CIBERER's 15-year journey and summarize the main results obtained in terms of internationalization, scientific production, contributions toward the discovery of new therapies and novel genes associated to diseases, cooperation with patients' associations and many other topics related to RD research

An approach to the notion of reflective teacher and its exemplification on mathematics education

Within research into the teaching profession, there are two main areas of interest, which have been thoroughly defined and consolidated: teacher’s knowledge and teacher’s professional development. This paper considers the latter area, and specifically sets out to define the concept of the reflective teacher and to show how we have applied this concept in our research. It aims at defining a more precise notion of teachers’ professional development linked to the concept of a reflective teacher, drawing on information from different interdisciplinary sources so as to frame the concept clearly. We discuss the conditions which determine the reflective teacher, and report on how these were put to use in a training course for practising teachers in which participants reflected on challenging episodes from their professional experience. We hope that clarifying this term will enable different educational agents (school teachers, teacher trainers or researchers) to have an informed view that can be interpreted and critiqued, and that it will also be of value to initial teacher training and to in-service courses.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Generalized susceptibilities and Landau parameters for anisotropic Fermi liquids

We study Fermi liquids (FLs) with a Fermi surface that lacks continuous rotational invariance and in the presence of an arbitrary quartic interaction. We obtain the expressions of the generalized static susceptibilities that measure the linear response of a generic order parameter to a perturbation of the Hamiltonian. We apply our formulae to the spin and charge susceptibilities. Based on the resulting expressions, we make a proposal for the definition of the Landau parameters in nonisotropic FL.Fil: Cabra, Daniel Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Grandi, Nicolás Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Rodríguez Ponte, Pablo Agustín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física La Plata; Argentin