Conteúdos matemáticos mobilizados por alunos de ensino médio na construção de jogos

Abstract

This monograph is a study of the contents mobilized by Basic Education students when they are encouraged to build mathematical games. The study was conducted with fourteen students of first and second year of high school in a public school in the state, participants in Group Oriented Studies (GEO), developed in 2012 during the supervised training. Data were collected using a strategy of participant observation research. Procedure as was used in addition to observation and journaling, a semi-structured. The information obtained during these procedures were analyzed qualitatively. The survey results show that students choose content they consider easy to solve, such as operations involving addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and root extraction potentiation with whole numbers, decimals or fractional, contents studied in elementary school, not require more elaborate calculations for its resolution.