Curso de Especialização em Ensino de Matemática no Ensino Médio: Matemática na Prática

Abstract

Architecting was an activity applied with students of the 9th grade of Elementary School of a state school, in the city of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul. The activity consisted of using a practical and unprecedented activity for the teacher. As suggested, the students should measure, with the help of a measuring tape, each room in the school in order to create a floor plan with them. The students accepted the proposal in a friendly way, and realized the real use of the measures. In addition, from these measurements, one can understand the idea of scale, carried out in mathematics class, when measurements are placed on paper, which obviously does not accept real values and needs to use a proportion so that it becomes faithful to the physical school, in this case. The activity resulted in the blueprint of the school, and a brief text describing the experience, which was discussed among the students. Such activity reflected on the subsequent learning of the discipline, perceptible in the students' grades, in the two-month period of the application and afterwards. Based on the perception of Ole Skovsmose and Jean Piaget, who advocate the application of practical activities in teaching didactics, which may result in better learning in the face of student involvement.