Matemática e leitura: Uma análise a partir de um livro paradidático para ensino de Matemática

Abstract

This research was developed in a qualitative approach, and it has the objective to analyze the possibility of students learn math through the reading of an educational book, moreover, to investigate the conceptions of basic education teachers about the use of these educational books in math class. The development of this research occurred in two moments, the first one, started in a public school at a high school class, we choose to work questions from Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) about the contents of ration, proportion, the rule of three and quantities, besides of the educational book “Uma proporção Ecológica”, from the author Luzia Faraco Ramos, where the same contents from ENEM questions were tackled. In the second moment, we developed results from a high school workshop about the teaching math in basic education, with the aim to increase the reading and writing skills throughout the educational books to 40 teachers from public school. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 8 teachers from the 40 teachers’ participants, who presented as volunteers for the interview. The result shows that the teachers acknowledge the importance of this resource, even so they highlighted the difficulties to use it, one of these difficulties was the absence of offers from the government. Therefore, we base this study in researches of Freitas (2010), Luna (2011), Lima (2017) and other authors that address the importance of educational book in math classes.