Teachers' conceptions of mathematical skills

This research describes the teachers' conceptions about the competences in mathematics as regulators in the quality of education in the different Educational Institutions in Caqueta. That is why the purpose of this document is the characterization of the conceptions of math competences in teachers from the municipality of Florencia focused on the curricular contents, didactic and learning assessment to identify if there are significant differences between the emerging categories in relation to their function, capacity and performance of their applicability by the teachers. Due to the mixed nature of the inquiry, a scope is chosen where teacher's situations, customs and attitudes are described in face of the dependent and independent variables of the sample. The data was collected through the implementation of structured surveys to 73 mathematics teachers which were analyzed by the ANOVA variance index from the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program; finding multifactoriality in the conceptions when identifying and describing 16 emerging categories related to mathematical thinking, classroom work and content assessment instruments, resulting in the Significant Sociocultural Learning the most prevalence. Due to the above, the research is a strategic description for the reality of teaching knowledge about the implementation of educational components (competencies) described by the Ministry of National Education.