About the Journal
EL CÁLCULO Y SU ENSEÑANZA; is a biannual, bilingual publication of the Department of Educational Mathematics (DME) of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-IPN); which is dedicated to research on the teaching and learning processes of the basic sciences and mathematics.
Objetive and scope
El Cálculo y su Enseñanza is an international peer-reviewed publication that provides an academic forum for the presentation and discussion of the educational issues of the process of teaching and learning of mathematics and basic sciences at all educational levels, whether in university schools of science, engineering, architecture or social sciences and in secondary, primary and for any level and area. It presents ideas, concepts, proposals and models for the international educational community that contribute to the promotion and improvement of the teaching and learning of basic sciences and mathematics in diverse contexts and latitudes.
The papers can contribute to both the theory and practice of disciplines. They can also have a robust component in mathematics or science, as long as the educational purpose is not lost and vice versa, the methodological aspects, pedagogical, etc., can be favored, as long as the mathematical theme is clear and relevant.
The paper is not limited to the role of a vehicle for communication between specialists. It also has the particular purpose of influencing the environment of teachers of mathematics and science, so that in-depth knowledge of that environment is indispensable. Consequently, studies that take a deep look at deficiencies, difficulties, and so on, both among students and among teachers in a certain educational setting are welcome, especially when there is a field exploration with relevant data.
The articles are intended to make proposals, especially for our Ibero-American reality and may be of interest not only to other researchers in mathematical education and sciences of the same specialty, but also to professors in service at the corresponding level. Consequently, research articles, whether basic or applied, must respond to an educational problem (explicit in them) and must communicate, in intelligible language, their findings and proposals, seeking, in the case of findings, to convince teachers of their relevance and, with the proposals, to enrich and improve the educational process, inviting such teachers to experiment with them, reformulate them or extend them.
Evaluation process
Manuscripts submitted to the journal are initially evaluated to assess their relevance by the Editorial Committee, notifying within twenty-five days of their acceptance to proceed to the academic peer review. Manuscripts submitted for blind peer review by experts in the field are evaluated by three referees. The journal does not charge a fee for the submission, arbitration, processing, publication or distribution of articles.
If the opinions of the specialists are contradictory, the article will be submitted to the Editorial Board, or an additional evaluation will be requested.
- The decision may be: Accepted, Conditioned or Rejected.
The opinion shall be communicated in writing exclusively to the corresponding author, within a period not exceeding two months from the date of receipt of the original.
Once the opinion of the article has been extended to the corresponding author, the latter must respond to the editorial committee within the period established in each case. Otherwise the article will be automatically rejected.
Before the final publication of the article, the Editorial Committee of the journal, will send to the authors proofs of edition of the manuscript. These proofs must be sent with changes of form, but not of substance, to the journal within a period of no more than five working days
Before the publication of the article, the authors must issue a letter of transfer of rights and approval of the content of the article, in the format that the journal will provide for this purpose.
The publication of the journal is six-monthly, for such reason depending on the date of receipt of the article, will be the turn that will be granted for its publication. However, once the letter of acceptance of the article has been granted, the authors may report it as "article accepted in press".
Publication frequency
The magazine EL CÁLCULO Y SU ENSEÑANZA is published twice a year (January-June; July-December) in Spanish and English. The authors can submit their work for evaluation at any time during the year.
- Closing date for the first issue of the year: 15 March.
- Closing date for the second issue of the year: 15 September.
The magazine EL CÁLCULO Y SU ENSEÑANZA, is distributed under a Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Ethical considerations
The magazine EL CÁLCULO Y SU ENSEÑANZA, is a publication that follows the ethical norms of international standards. Among which we can point out: Respect the plurality of ideas and approaches, strict confidentiality throughout the evaluation process. Not to provoke any conflict of interest, to respect the established criteria and norms of evaluation, not to publish writings that could be the result of unethical practices. It will be evaluated whether the number of authors corresponds to the amount of work involved in the research from which the article is derived. Articles whose number of authors is excessive in relation to the magnitude of the work presented are not published.
In order to comply with the above, all manuscripts submitted will be evaluated in databases in order to avoid possible plagiarism. They will be evaluated using the double-blind system, avoiding the use of evaluators who are colleagues from the same institution. This journal reserves the right to publish, even those that have already been approved by the referees, when it is detected that the elaboration of the same violated some of the basic principles of research ethics.
Open Access policy
This journal offers open access to its content on the principles of the Budapest initiative and the standards set by the Open Access Academic Publishers Association (OASPA), that research freely available to the public supports greater global exchange of knowledge; on the understanding that the copyright holders, who are the authors and the journal, allow users to copy, use, distribute, transmit and publicly display the work in any digital medium for any non-commercial and responsible academic purpose, subject to due attribution by the author. The opinions expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the position of the publisher of the publication.
Publication Fees
Since the costs of publishing the journal EL CÁLCULO Y SU ENSEÑANZA, are covered by the internal budgets of the university publisher (CINVESTAV), authors do not have to pay any fee for the edition of the article (article-processing charges, APC). Therefore, the journal has no policy for subsidizing waivers.