Piaget's critical clinical interview: a post-pandemic exploratory study in division with decimal point

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Abstract

The post-pandemic period has highlighted the need to explore students' strengths and areas of opportunity in their different subjects. This article reports on an investigation whose objective was to identify the levels of thinking about division with decimal points in high school in a post-pandemic context. Through a descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional, qualitative descriptive design, an interview was designed according to Piaget's critical clinical method, in which four Mexican high school students between 12 and 13 years old participated. The main findings show that the students need the support of materials to understand the problems posed and to provide solutions, since it can be concluded that they are still in the phase of concrete thinking, in addition to having difficulties in conceptualizing division with decimal point. This highlights the need to reinforce arithmetic concepts in initial education.

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division, critical clinical interview, post-pandemic, initial education, exploratory study