O uso do Tangram para o ensino de áreas e perímetros de figuras planas

Abstract

The work in question is configured as a bibliographic review on the use of educational games as a teaching tool. The game chosen, as a reference, was the tangram, which is related to the teaching of geometry, and from the subjects of this content, areas and perimeters of the plane figures were selected. The analysis is made regarding the significant potential that this tool presents for the teaching and learning process, based on the theories of Piaget and David Ausubel. The research took as a parameter the guiding documents of Brazilian education, where the importance of using games as an educational tool was extracted. The purpose of this work was to highlight in the guiding works the efficiency of the tangram as a learning resource, in a qualitative analysis of the indications of each author and, thus, to prove that its use is a different way of approaching issues of geometry. The importance of diversifying methods and tools for the teaching of mathematics is also indicated, and that these resources are not to replace the traditional teaching method, but to complement teaching practice, and to propose inclusive and innovative teaching.