Retratos de uma sala de aula: projetos e resolução de problemas na matemática dos anos iniciais

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Santos-Minatel, Maria Angela Dias dos [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Matemática; Ensino fundamental; Aprendizagem; Ensino; Education
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110902

Our main objective was to ivesetigate and report the math learning process through problems and projects with students from primary years. Our question problem was: How does math learning happen based on projects and problem-solving? This is a qualitative research characterized as a Case Study of a multi-grade classroom from a bilingual, private located in Bauru (SP, Brazil). We used as research tools: participant observation, interviews, diaries, students' notes, pre and post-tests for producing data during one school trimester. The math contents were: number system, tables on graphs, linear measurement, addition and subtration. We proposed a descriptive analysis identifying how projects and problem solving methods were used. We concluded project based learning was more focused on integrating math with themes and other subject matters while the problem based learning was focused on questions and problems that were posed to students about the math content. With our results, we also concluded that in some activities problem and project based learning happened together as a mix, with characteristics of both theories; in other moments problem solving and projects happened separately, in very distinct moments. Besides problems and projects, we had other resources that contributed with math learning, such as worksheets, writing on students' math notebooks and math diaries, conversations about math with the interviews and assessments. The results aim to colaborate with teachers from primary years and with researches in Math Education, offering possibilities for reflections and discussions on teaching and leaning that math seeking best practices