The Bachelor of Mathematics has a profile to work mainly as a mathematics teacher in basic and secondary education institutions, characterized by: Promoting respect and inclusion for diversity in education from a socio-cultural perspective. Being an integral education professional, capable of solving disciplinary, pedagogical, and didactic problems in their contexts of action. Exercising their discipline creatively in pursuit of thought processes and mathematical competencies in children and young people, thereby enabling the formation of critical and reflective citizens regarding knowledge and its uses. Generating pedagogical and didactic proposals to enhance mathematics learning in the student population. Being reflective, with the capacity to undertake transformation initiatives in the classroom and the educational context that benefit learning and the development of capacities in different populations and levels of basic and secondary education.
General Information
Applicant Profile
Consider the following characteristics for studying a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics:
○ You are interested in strategies that promote creativity, autonomy, and flexibility in mathematical thinking.
○ You are an academic or pedagogical high school graduate, a superior normalist, or a labor technician with an emphasis in education. A technologist in education or a homologator from other careers associated with education or mathematical application.
Occupational Profile
You can work as:
○ Mathematics teacher in basic and secondary education institutions.
○ Researcher of your professional practice, recognizing it as a source of knowledge production.
○ Active agent in institutional planning and evaluation, as well as in the design of pedagogical and didactic alternatives that foster creativity, autonomy, and flexibility in your students' mathematical thinking.
Why study with us?
○ Second national program in virtual modality with unique training quality.
○ Specializes in: Socio-cultural perspective of mathematical education or mathematical education and ICT.
○ Possibility of credit formation in the Master's in Education with a specialization component in Mathematical Education and ICT.
○ Program focused on objective 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the UN: Ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education.
○ Preparation courses for international certifications: Microsoft, Oracle.
○ Access to international events and Master Classes from Grupo Planeta Formación y Universidades.
○ Virtual mathematics laboratories.
○ Certifications through training routes in: Sociocultural Perspective of Mathematical Education, Mathematical Education and ICT, or Fundamentals of Education and Pedagogy.
Program Objective
To train education professionals with extensive pedagogical, disciplinary, and didactic capacities, enabling them to provide mathematical education to children and young people in basic education, within the national context according to the requirements of current society, while generating processes of inclusion and respect for diversity, to ensure the reduction of learning disparities; strengthen civic competencies and foster critical and reflective thinking in different populations and educational institutions.
Curriculum
Semester 1
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Chair I. Diversity and Inclusion | 2 |
| Communicative Competencies | 2 |
| Mathematical Thinking | 3 |
| Digital Competencies | 3 |
| Mathematical Logic | 3 |
| Euclidean Geometry | 2 |
| Fundamentals of Pedagogy | 3 |
Semester 2
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Chair II. Life Plan | 2 |
| Argumentation and Text Production | 2 |
| Basic Mathematics | 3 |
| English I | 3 |
| Analytic and Space Geometry | 3 |
| Didactics of Numerical Thinking | 2 |
| Fundamentals of Didactics | 3 |
Semester 3
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Descriptive Statistics | 3 |
| English II | 3 |
| Educational Research | 3 |
| Differential Calculus | 3 |
| Curriculum | 3 |
| Epistemological Foundations of Mathematics Education | 3 |
Semester 4
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Chair III. Entrepreneurship | 2 |
| English III | 3 |
| Digital Management and Innovation | 3 |
| Integral Calculus | 3 |
| Didactics of Variational Thinking | 2 |
| Pedagogical Practice I | 5 |
Semester 5
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| English IV | 3 |
| Inferential Statistics | 3 |
| Didactics of Random Thinking | 3 |
| Evaluation | 3 |
| Pedagogical Practice II | 6 |
Semester 6
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective I | 2 |
| Bioethics | 2 |
| English V | 3 |
| Didactics of Spatial and Metric Thinking | 3 |
| Pedagogical Practice III | 2 |
Semester 7
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective II | 2 |
| English VI | 3 |
| Research Processes | 3 |
| Pedagogical Practice IV | 10 |
Semester 8
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective III | 2 |
| Political and Economic Thought | 2 |
| Applied Mathematics | 3 |
| Pedagogical Practice V | 11 |

