Claudio Gaete-Peralta, Katherine Delgado, Jaime Huincahue

Proceedings of the 17th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2023, pp. 99-104 (2023); https://doi.org/10.54808/IMSCI2023.01.99

Claudio Gaete-Peralta
Departamento de Matemáticas y Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile

Katherine Delgado
Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile

Jaime Huincahue
Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile

Cite this paper as:
Gaete-Peralta, C., Delgado, K., Huincahue, J. (2023). Uses of Quantification and Modelling Category – The Case of Antimicrobial Coating Development. In N. Callaos, J. Horne, B. Sánchez, M. Savoie (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2023, pp. 99-104. International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.54808/IMSCI2023.01.99

In order to provide elements for the construction of reference frameworks that allow the educational community to value and recover the uses of mathematical knowledge of people that occur in specific situations in their daily life, the aim of this research was to analyse the uses of quantification that emerge in a specific situation of measurement by a professional community. To address this objective, the uses of quantification of a chemical engineer were analysed by means of a debate between performance and form in a specific measurement situation whose argumentation was given by the quantification of grams of additive necessary to elaborate an antimicrobial coating. The results of this research allowed to account for the uses of quantification that emerged by the chemical engineer in this specific measurement situation. Among the conclusions, this research allowed the identification of epistemological aspects and contextualised rationalities that emerged in this situation and that are expected to provide elements for the construction of this type of reference frameworks.