Levi-Strauss 1908-2009

Acaba de morir el padre de la antropología a los 100 años de edad. Nos deja un legado enorme. Hombre de gran erudición, consagró su vida al estudio de las sociedades mal llamadas primitivas, justamente para demostrar que dichas sociedades no tenían nada de primitivas. Fue el principal portavoz de la antropología en Francia, declarando a voces, que la antropología rinde homenaje a la “superstición” y que el estudio de los mitos, tiene un lugar central para esta ciencia.3 Demostró, pacientemente, la universalidad de la naturaleza humana, explicando que el cerebro humano esta hecho, en todas partes del mundo, de la misma forma, con idénticas limitaciones. A continuación haré una breve reseña de su vida y de sus libros.

Contributions of Neuroscience to Develop Teaching Strategies and Learning of Mathematics

The goal of the present work is to develop some strategies based on research in neurosciences that contribute to the teaching and learning of mathematics. The interrelationship of education with the brain, as well as the relationship of cerebral structures with mathematical thinking was discussed. Strategies were developed taking into consideration levels that include cognitive, semiotic, language, affect and the overcoming of phobias to the subject. The fundamental conclusion was the imperative educational requirement in the near future of a new teacher, whose pedagogic formation must include the knowledge on the cerebral function, its structures and its implications to education, as well as a change in pedagogy and curricular structure in the teaching of mathematics.