Summary
Mathematics is a discipline that, throughout its history, in addition to
Its own development has responded to social and scientific needs in all
civilizations, which confers a preponderant role in the cultural tradition of our
society. Its own nature, its essential characteristics and the notions and structures
that make them up, contribute in a singular way to the formation of people and to
development of his faculties, as well as the cultivation of his character. Also, mathematics
provide tools for the development of work activity and for exercise
professional, so they are instruments of preparation and training for the
citizenship (Rico and Lupiáñez, 2008). These essential characteristics make the
mathematics is a structural part of school education. Mathematical education
proclaims as a principle that all citizens must achieve, through the
mathematics, the maximum possible development of all your skills, individual and
social, intellectual, cultural and emotional.