Uma investigação sobre o uso de ferramentas digitais do dia-a-dia para aprendizagem de matemática

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop a teaching methodology focused on virtual environments like e-mails, chats and forums to study mathematics. The activities used for this study are characterized for being composed by problem- situations oriented by theoretical assumptions. The aim is stimulate the production of student`s meaning in class. Mathematics structure underlying to problem-situations links the development of the functions of the 1st degree. The elaboration process had as focus the production of a prototype of a new teaching methodology which analyze of its potentiality was done through a field research in order to investigate the use of a dayby- day digital tools by the meanings produced by people involved in this research to do the tasks given. The research is characterized as a qualitative investigation, and the data collection was done by the virtual submission of a 1st Biomedicine students` group of a private college in Vilhena, Rondonia. The reading of the meaning production of these students was developed having as reference the semantic field`s model. The educational product elaborated from this work is the proposal of a new teaching methodology that can be used not only in Superior Education, but also in elementary and high school`s education. And besides, it can be used as prototype for the elaboration of new teaching methodologies that has virtual environments as a work tool and students are daily in touch.