Microsoft Math Solver na formação de professores de Matemática dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza

Abstract

Humanity's immersion in the technological age has generated a variety of uncertainties and difficulties, especially in the education sector. It is a fact that the interaction between the subject and the object of knowledge has changed significantly in recent decades, especially with the advent of technologies and mobile devices, and this has signaled that traditional educational practices need to be rethought and replaced by more interactive, diversified, and interesting practices. This phenomenon poses a huge challenge for teachers and, consequently, for teacher training policies. In this context, understanding the need to provide alternatives to assist and support educators in the municipal public school system of Fortaleza in planning teaching activities for mathematics content, this study conducted an applicability study with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology called Microsoft Math Solver. The main objective was to analyze the applicability, usefulness, versatility, and challenges in using the AI application Microsoft Math Solver in the classroom for training mathematics teachers in the early years of elementary school in public schools in the municipal network of Fortaleza, Ceará. The research focused on developing a training proposal for teachers in the early years of basic education, providing the necessary tools to work with the application and incorporating the principles of Instructional Design (ID) so that the students themselves could create their teaching sequences according to their needs. With regard to methodological procedures, this research involved the implementation of a training program, in the form of a 60-hour hybrid extension course, using the Instructional Design (ID) model in the organization and logistics of assessment, containing four modules, aimed at mathematics teachers in the early years of elementary school, with the proposal to discuss the insertion of Artificial Intelligence – AI in the educational context, as well as the presentation, applicability, and usability of the application, including a series of activities aimed at creating, at the end of the event, teaching sequences that were compiled in an e-book, an educational product resulting from the research. This e-book provided step-by-step instructions for planning and executing a training plan for mathematics teachers using the tool presented.