Metacognition

It is presented as strategic thinking to use and regulate their own learning activity and accustomed to reflect on one's knowledge. [] Is one of the approaches to constructivist theories of meaningful learning, which responds to the need for a transition from a passive learner willing to learn and reproductive adaptively what prompted, to a generator and constructive learner, aimed at the search for meaning than it does

Metacognition is a multifaceted concept, generated in educational research, mainly carried out during class experiences.

Among the various aspects of metacognition, we highlight the following:

Metacognition refers to knowledge, awareness, control and nature of metacognitive learning processes aprendizaje.El can be developed through learning experiences adecuadas.Cada person has somehow metacognitive views, sometimes in the form according to inconciente.De the methods used by teachers for teaching, can encourage or discourage the students' metacognitive trends.

"Metacognition refers to knowledge of one's own cognitive processes, the results of these processes and any aspect that relates to them learning that is relevant properties that relate to the information and data. For example, I am involved in metacognition if I notice that it is easier to learn

Metacognition we mean by "the capacity we have people self-regulate our own learning, that is, what strategies have been planning to use in every situation (learning), implement, monitor the process, evaluate you for possible failures, and as transfer result ... all at a new action or learning situation. "

Subject: The person performing the act of thinking (in our case a person who performs a mathematical operation) Subject: Is the stimulus, the thing to be thought or known through its essential features (The mathematical operation itself, that part of objective reality). The act of regret: what makes the person who wants to know (Using the senses in order to uncover the essential characteristics of the object, the mathematical operation-). Thought: Results of the act of thinking (ie, the mathematical operation and its result).

Metacognitive knowledge: is knowledge about three aspects of cognitive activity: people (know that you remember best words to numbers), the task (knowing that the organization of a text facilitates or hinders the learning of content) and strategies (knowing that the realization of a conceptual scheme is a procedure that promotes understanding)