Criação de vídeo aulas de matemática por alunos do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This work is an experience report on learning the four basic math operations, carried out with a small group of 3rd-grade students in the Elementary School of a municipal educational facility in a city located in the north of the State of Paraná, Brazil. The work was performed in out-of-school hours with a group of five students who had difficulties with the subject. It is mainly grounded on Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning and articles which address ludic playfulness. As to the practical activities, one decided to work with the monetary system, since it is the everyday topic of school children, even at pre-school level. A little sales stand with simulated market-products and play money were used in order to involve the ludic and motivate the practice. A written and individual diagnostic evaluation was applied in the beginning, and the questions thereof were used as scripts for the videos produced by the students, who were divided in two teams. The videos served to support the exercises and especially to induce learning of the content at the time of creation. Later, one proceeded to the evaluation of learning in the same way as the first. The results show a significant point improvement, but were slightly lower than expected, also caused by some difficulties that occured during the development.