Competências em atividades de modelagem matemática na educação infantil

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the question: what competences can be developed by students of Child Education in Mathematical Modelling activities? For that, six Mathematical Modelling activities were developed, among which three were analyzed in this dissertation. These activities were developed with students aged 4 and 5 years, in a class of Infantil IV, from a Municipal Center for Child Education, located in the North of the State of Paraná. For data collection we used an audio recorder and two cell phones, in order to record students’ speeches and gestural expressions, in addition, we collected their written productions and took notes in a field diary. For the analysis of the activities, we are guided by a qualitative approach, through which we seek the data for evidence of the development of competences, both in Mathematics, as in Mathematical Modelling. From the analysis, we observed the potential of Mathematical Modelling activities to teach Child Education students to think, reason and model mathematically and, particularly with regard to Mathematical Modelling, to understand and solve problems, produce mathematical models and evaluate solutions.