O uso do software de autoria jclic como ferramenta pedagógica no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de conteúdos da matemática nas séries finais do ensino fundamental por meio da construção de jogos educativos

Abstract

This is a case study on the use of new technologies for teaching mathematics. The objective is to evaluate the process of building games in authoring software Jclic through the active participation of students in the creation of games as well as discuss in results. The problem with this research highlights the figure of the teacher, their interaction with the technology and methodology of teaching. The strategy of using this tape of software in mathematics teaching was the focus of this research. First we did an investigation of how technologies are embedded in society, from the perspective of authors such as Castells (2001) and Kenski (2007) in order to provide greater understanding of the current reality, through the knowledge of facts that influence professional practice teacher. In developing this work we have studied on the following subjects: mathematics education in schools and trends and current issues in mathematics education, a survey of the difficulties faced by mathematics teachers in teaching this discipline and the ways proposed by authors such as Chagas (2001) and D’Ambrosio (2002) to decrease the rejection of traditional teaching methods, the study of pedagocial approaches that can guide the teaching of mathematics with the use of technologies and the identification of ways of how computers can be used in teaching and learning mathematics; cycle description – execution – reflection – debugging proposed by Valente (1999) as the means by which students learn to use content authoring software, and the survey of the types of software used in education, emphasizing the authoring software such as those that have the characteristics for the development of constructivist activities and, among them, the Jclic. The field study collected data through observations and questionnaires to three teachers responsible for teaching math in a school located in Fortaleza, and a group of seven students distributed among three classes of this institution. The collected data were analyzed from the qualitative model proposed by Moraes (2002). At the end, we found that the game development in software Jclic presents enormous potential to assist teachers in teaching mathematics.