Comment l’articulation entre théorie de l’activité et théorie anthropologique éclaire la transition secondaire-supérieur : le cas des probabilités conditionnelles

Abstract

How networking Activity Theory and Anthropological Theory of Didactics sheds light on the secondary-tertiary transition: the case of conditional probability. The study of the secondary-tertiary transition requires taking into account institutional evolution but also the point of view of the actors. For this reason we have chosen to network the activity theory adapted to the didactics of mathematics with the anthropological theory of the didactic. In this article we present this networking and illustrate its use through the example of conditional probabilities. We propose to operationalize the complementarity of these two theories by making use of the concept of type of tasks' variations that we define and illustrate through the example presented. The new theoretical framework constructed allows us to describe praxeologies taught while taking into account the cognitive and mediative dimensions of the subject's activity.