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GARBIN, Sabrina. La problemática fractal: un punto de vista cognitivo con interés didáctico. Paradìgma [online]. 2007, vol.28, n.2, pp.79-108. ISSN 1011-2251.

In this article we will deepen in the problematic of the "fractal object", from a cognitive point of view and with a didactic interest. In particular, it is interesting to study what properties of the fractal are perceivable by the university students and how "they define it" having only one experience of visualization. The study includes 77 students who have previous knowledge of differential and integral calculus. The methodology is qualitative and systematic networks are used as tool for analysis of the collected qualitative data. Most of the students perceive the fractal in his characteristics in a partial way and "they define it" as a mathematical set that fulfills certain properties. The previous knowledge of differential and integral calculus has not had a significant and/or determining incidence in the answers of the students

Palavras-chave : fractal; infinity process; visualization; perception.