Aplicativos do Sistema Operacional Android na aprendizagem de Matemática: Aplicativos e jogos digitais

Abstract

The constant presence of technologies in the social and academic life of each of us is perceptible. Our schools are full of mobile devices that can connect the entire school community with the world's knowledge. There are millions of people using a mobile platform such as the Android operating system, which have endless applications with diverse specificity for the various tasks faced by the human being in their day to day life. Considering the presence of this material, in our schools and in the social life of our student, the objective was to analyze the potential of Android applications and digital games in Mathematics teaching in two public schools in the cities of Catingueira-PB and Patos -PB. This study begins at the State School Inácio da Catingueira, in the municipality of Catingueira-PB. In this first stage of the project, the students' opinion about the use of the Matrix application, in Matrix and Determinants teaching, was analyzed through an online questionnaire. After analyzing the results, we considered the use of other applications and digital games, in a public school in the city of Patos-PB: state school of elementary and middle school José Gomes Alves. After the research, in this school, which is qualitative, with a case study technique, through the Likert scale, we seek to understand the students' opinion after using some games and applications in exponential function classes, in a middle grade. After the analysis, we conclude, through the students' answers, that the use of the applications in the classes of exponential function was significantly characterized as instruments, in the process of mathematical learning.