LEARNING OF BASIC ARITHMETIC SKILLS PER STUDENT OF THE 5TH GRADE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
Elementary Arithmetic; Numbering System; Learning Difficulties; Psycho-pedagogical Intervention.
The aim of the research was to study the process of learning Basic Arithmetic Skills in 5th grade students with learning difficulties and to answer the following research problem: How does psychopedagogical intervention, as a mediating action, enable the development of basic arithmetic skills in 5th grade students with learning difficulties? We adopted the following methodological procedures: bibliographic research with a systematic review of the literature based on the Nakagawa et al. (2017) protocol, which allowed us to obtain conceptual references from the literature on mathematics learning by students with learning difficulties and; the single case study, through the theoretical description of Yin (2001), Gil (2021), Ventura (2007) and Creswell (2014) with the application of psycho-pedagogical intervention, whose case analysis unit was a 5th grade elementary school student with learning difficulties in basic arithmetic skills. For data collection, we used: the psycho-pedagogical assessment with the application of the psycho-pedagogical anamnesis with the family, observations by the teacher-researcher, systematic observation of the student, psycho-pedagogical tests of school performance: (EOCA, TDE, Piagetian Tests, Projective Techniques and Promat Owl) and, finally, we applied psychopedagogical intervention, taking as reference: Weiss (2015), Fernandes (1990), Piaget (1975), Bossa (1992), Chamat (2008), Sampaio (2008) and the National Common Curriculum Base (BNCC, 2017). For data analysis, we used interpretative data analysis, according to Creswell (2014). Expected result: it was possible to develop the skills of the four basic arithmetic operations, the identification and use of the decimal numbering system with the application of the psycho-pedagogical intervention, being a mediating action of the construction of the learning of this student that allowed to demonstrate that through the use of the psycho-pedagogical intervention it was efficient in the initial condition of learning that the student was and after its application, it raised its level of learning of basic arithmetic skills.