Quanto cabe em um porta malas? : solucionando um problema matemático

Abstract

This text aims to report the planning, elaboration and application of an unprecedented mathematics class with students of the 3rd year of High School in class 306 in the morning shift of Colégio Estadual Antônio de Castro Alves located in the municipality of Alvorada/RS, seeking a report the application of an unprecedented class with the use of mathematics as a tool. The question that guided this application was: How to demonstrate to students that mathematics can be used in our lives to solve problems? And together with this question, the intention was to demonstrate that space related to the forms present in our day to day are part of mathematics, awakening the thought and analysis of situations can be done together, providing and reflection of everyone, each in their own way, but exposing and discussing the proposed situation. Soon, the idea arose to question students about the capacity of a trunk and autonomously check how a situation would be resolved, through traditional mathematics or not. At the end of the activity, the students answered an alert about their emotions in relation to the activity developed. Through the perception of the teacher and the controls answered by the students, a report was carefully analyzed analyzing the investigative process, preparing some things to think about and understand.