Construindo pontes: dinâmica grupal em aulas de matemática na EJA

Abstract

This research is the result of questions related to the work in the Adult Education (EJA) by teachers when organizing a dynamic activity. Based on the qualitative paradigm of a research scenario, the researcher followed, registered and analyzed mathematics classes in the final cycle of Elementary School II. Thus, the paper brings the following research question: How do a group of Adult Education students perform a group task in a Mathematics classroom? With this question defined, it becomes necessary to establish the general and specific objectives of the research. The first ones are: Analyze the group dynamics of EJA students in a mathematical activity and elaborate an educational product aimed at teachers. The specific objectives are: (a) to verify how the students construct work strategies aiming at confection of the model of the paper bridge in an investigative scenario. (B) Analyze how students use mathematical skills linked to percentages, proportionality and geometry, possibly using their school memories. The results of the analyzes of only one group showed a communicative model that gradually progressed from the divergent pattern to the diffuse one caused by the participation of the teacher and the sharing of perspectives of the participants.