Uma análise sobre as possíveis causas do desinteresse dos alunos em aprender matemática

Abstract

This work proposes to do a research on the disinterest of students in mathematics, where frequent dialogues are heard from teachers in relation to students who have no interest in studying, thus ending up not participating in the proposed activities, failing to complete the tasks, creating parallel conversations in class and making no effort to learn. Consequently, these students do not acquire the necessary skills, leading to lack of learning, low performance in school performance and, in more extreme cases, failure. Thus, the participation and interest of elementary school students has been the subject of debates among teachers, parents, and school management, where they show great concern. According to these teachers, this situation happens in all subjects and is even more worrying when it comes to the math curriculum component. In order to seek factors that influence the lack of interest of the students, certain extra and intracurricular subjects were thought of, such as: reality of the school and community, family, perspective of life, methodology of the teacher and difficulty in learning math, a quantitative research was carried out, applying techniques of data collection with students and teachers of the Municipal School of Elementary Education of Batoque, in the Municipality of Aquiraz, through informal dialogues and application of a structured questionnaire. Through the research, we realized that the possible lack of interest is associated with little interaction of students in math classes motivated by shyness and fear of making mistakes, and it is necessary to develop mechanisms that can strengthen the student's self-confidence and strengthen the student-teacher relationship. In cases where disinterest has been found, it is associated with situations that happen outside the school, and it is not only up to the teacher to solve them.