Jogo digital para o auxílio ao ensino da disciplina de matemática na educação especial

Abstract

The use of adapted strategies and resources provides an environment in which the learner can respect his individual characteristics while at the same time collaborating with the development of his potentialities. Educational games are used as a tool for learning, because their playful character provides the student with a type of strategy differentiated for the realization of their learning process, in which the challenge attracts their attention, arouses their interest, curiosity and even fantasy with the contents presented during its execution. The goal of this research was to develop a game software to aid the learning of the mathematics discipline for people attended in special education, focusing on the initial grades elementary school, which has content developed according to the curricular parameters of the mathematics discipline elaborated by Ministry of Education. Together with professionals in the educational area, the question-and-answer learning game was chosen and after that the contents of the math discipline were selected, the layout of the application was defined and the flow of the game to be followed. Because of this work, we obtained an educational game composed of 43 questions with content of the math discipline, compatible with tablets and smartphones that use the Android operating system and whose focus is the aid to learning math in the initial series of teaching fundamental. Through the evaluation of the developed software, it was possible to verify that the students consider positive the use of digital game software in tablet for the learning aid. The developed application reached the objectives for which it was designed and proved an excellent alternative to be adopted by the teachers of the mathematics discipline in the teaching and learning process of its students.