Material dourado digital: Software educativo para o ensino de operações fundamentais matemáticas

Abstract

The individual who possesses an efficient mathematical knowledge is capable of obtaining greater prospects of professional and social success, thus resulting in a strong tendency towards a better society. History shows that man has always sought to appropriate this knowledge, developing numerous instruments and methodologies to assist man in the best acquisition of such knowledge, where we can highlight the Golden Material as one of these instruments. Knowing the current difficulties in the teaching of mathematics in schools, the work proposed here resumes the Golden Material bringing it to the school environment in a digital version, supported by the dynamics and interactivity of play as a new way of re-signifying it . Thus, an educational game was developed with the purpose of making the teaching of addition and subtraction more attractive and dynamic for students in the 6th year of elementary school. Therefore, the research has a qualitative character, where we adopt as theoretical framework the study of Freitas (2004) and base the research methodology on the model of Romberg (1992). The data were collected in two moments: through a semistructured interview with the teachers of the E. Sen. Argemiro de Figueiredo School, in the city of Campina Grande, in order to know the school reality they experienced, as well as present the game in development , And in the second moment the application of the game in a class of students of the 6th year of elementary school of the State School of Application, with the purpose of validating the game and knowing the interest of the students in using it in learning the content. A field notebook, photo camera and voice recorder were used to record the data. According to our analysis, the use of the game made the learning process more interesting, dynamic and attractive for the students, where it was possible to perceive the enthusiasm of the students in interacting with the game. Therefore, this tool materializes in a prominent instrument to support the teaching of addition and subtraction, offering the student a dynamic form of teaching and providing a new meaning for the use of the Gold Material.