A geometria no contexto da imagem fotográfica do bioma caatinga

Abstract

Like Mathematics, Geometry can be perceived in our daily lives, even mostly, we do not realize that. Because of this lack of attention, we are not aware of its importance and beauty. Caatinga is not either very popular or valued in so many ways, despite being extremely important to Nordeste, the northeast of Brazil. Therefore, the research that integrates these two topics brings a new meaning to both of them, besides it promotes interdisciplinarity in the school environment. Facing this matter, this research aims was to investigate possibilities of contributions of the photographic image of the Caatinga Biome to contribute to the teaching of Geometry, under the guiding question: how can the Caatinga Vegetation be explored in Geometry teaching? The research has qualitative matter and brings as support for data analysis the Visual Culture. The research embraced the 7th grade students from Escola Maria Salomé de Almeida, located in the City of Livramento, State of Paraíba. The results of the research pointed that it is possible to visualize in Caatinga Biome Vegetation spatial and plane geometric shapes, like symmetries, still it shows that it is possible to study geometry by observing photographic images of the vegetation of this biome, via Remote Learning. The analysis of the data also pointed that mathematics textbooks do not usually explore Caatinga Biome photographic images in the study of Geometry, which expresses the needing of being addressed by the them, since it allows not only Northeastern Students to feel closer to their reality, but also the others to realize the richness and beauty of this Biome.

Keywords: Teaching Geometry. Symmetry. Visual Culture. Photographic Image.