Colombian Community of Mathematics Education: a documentary characterization

Abstract We characterize the Colombian research and innovation community in Mathematics Education from its open access documentary production. We analyzed the content of 3475 documents published by this community between 1983 and 2017, with a semantic approach, from a taxonomy of key terms specific to Mathematics Education. We analyzed the diachronic behavior of the documentation and established the thematic specialty, the evolution of the content over time through the sets of variables such as educational level, pedagogical notions, and mathematics topics, and the association between these sets. The results confirm that Mathematics Education in Colombia is a study front. The focal points of interest for the community are the undergraduate and secondary educational levels, the pedagogical notions of learning, classroom and teaching, and the topics of geometry, algebra, and numbers. This study leaves an open discussion regarding the role of research and innovation in the consolidation of Mathematics Education as a discipline.