Atividades contextualizadas de matemática para o ensino de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate whether contextualized activities containing fundamental operations facilitate and/or contribute to the understanding of students enrolled in the EJA modality. Specifically, it sought to elaborate and apply exercises that can show and work with local reality and identify whether the use of everyday life will facilitate the understanding of mathematics in the classroom. The methodology of the research was a qualitative one, where bibliographic research was carried out with the help of books, articles and the Internet, where information on the theme was collected and data was collected through observations and the application of questionnaires composed of open questions and a field diary for taking notes of the observations. The target audience of the research were students enrolled in the EJA modality in four schools of the public school system of Santarem-PA. After data collection, a descriptive analysis was carried out. The contextualized questions were well received by the students and supervising teachers. In general, the students knew how to solve the questions mentally, but had difficulty in writing the correct result of the analyzed questions. After the application of the contextualized activities and the analysis of the results, we conclude that mathematical reasoning is present in many activities that man performs daily and accompanies him within society, for without it we cannot propose a development of critical character and that using everyday life that matches the local reality in math classes helps in the participation and evolution in the student's learning.