O lúdico associado à resolução de problemas e jogos no ensino e aprendizagem de funções: uma abordagem diferenciada

Abstract

The present paper had as its aim to analyze the results obtained in teaching and learning functions in the first year of high school when using amusement applied to different pedagogical strategies. The research was carried out with high school first grade students in a state school in Guarapuava, Paraná. To organize some strategies that could fill the students learning necessities, the game “Hanoi´s Tower” was chosen, as well as some problems solving, which were undertaken through characters and parodies in order to develop the functions contents during the mathematics classes. The theoretical references that delimited the research are organized in three chapters. The first and the second ones deal with High School in conformation to the National Curriculum Patterns and the Mathematics within the Common National Basis, also referring to authors like Machado (1993), Kuenzer (2010), Sacristán (2000) and Pais (2009). In the third chapter, the references observe Amusement at School, bringing studies from Grando (2008). Macedo (2005), Haydt (2006) and Macedo, Peety and Passos (2005). The amusement allusion is made through games, with basis on Kishimoto (2005), Smole amd Diniz (2007) and Machado (2012). Problem Solving, in an amusing approach brings as references authors as Pólya (2006), Pais (2009), Walle (2009) and Onuchic (1999). The chapter about amusement finishes broaching the parodies according to Hutcheon (1991), Fávero (1983) and Marchuschi (2008). The orientation, gathering and analysis of the data happened by the interpretative research, of qualitative nature with applied purpose. During the activities development, it was possible to observe a higher students involvement and interest for the contents if compared to earlier work strategies, as well as a strong evolution in learning, what is demonstrated by a diagnostic, processual and formative evaluation, which was used in different ways to attend students‟ demands. Based on the developed work, an interactive didactic manual in DVD was produced. Its objective is to offer high school teachers an itinerary to develop functions contents in a contextualized manner, using games and problems solving in a playful scenery.