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Research Article

Matter and Proportionality in the Learning Garden with Pre-Service Teachers

María Santágueda-Villanueva , Lidón Monferrer , Gil Lorenzo-Valentín , Mireia Adelantado-Renau

: In this study, we present a didactic experience carried out in a public university with 60 students enrolled in the 2nd year of the Primary Educatio.


  • Pub. date: April 15, 2025
  • Online Pub. date: March 10, 2025
  • Pages: 521-536
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: In this study, we present a didactic experience carried out in a public university with 60 students enrolled in the 2nd year of the Primary Education Teaching Degree. This experience consisted of implementing a teaching and learning sequence in which proportionality problems (mathematics content) and pure substances and mixtures (experimental science content) were addressed together in an ecodidactic garden context. This work presents the results obtained through the analysis of the students' responses. Our findings suggest that pre-service teachers have difficulties similar to those of primary and secondary students in the use of measuring instruments and conversion units, as well as in the calculation of proportions in mathematics and conceptual errors at a microscopic and macroscopic level in experimental sciences. This study highlights the need to design and implement strategies to support students in their formative process in relation to the contents of proportion and matter. As an added value in our work, we emphasize the interdisciplinary connection between mathematics and experimental sciences, offering a more real-life perspective of science.

Keywords: Initial training, mathematics education, natural sciences, open-air school, primary education.

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