A utilização de jogos matemáticos para o desenvolvimento da aprendizagem significativa de sólidos geométricos no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The work presented here reports on certain experiences in which games and play activities are used as strategies that trigger the teaching-learning process of spatial geometry, carried out in elementary school. The inclusion of games and play activities in the classroom becomes a pedagogical resource that has presented good results, because it creates situations that allow the student to develop methods of problem solving, stimulating their creativity and participation. Activities and games are proposed as spatial geometry teaching methodology. The present work has principal objective to investigate the importance of mathematical games for student learning, and how they can contribute to the development, especially with respect to geometric mathematical knowledge, and as specific objectives: to investigate the main difficulties encountered developing the students' logical thinking through didactic games and verifying if the didactic games facilitate the process of teaching Geometry. The methodology used was based on the bibliographical research in which some authors show that the application of games and activities in mathematics classes is a possibility that can help students in the presented difficulties. In this work, the teacher plays a very important role, as he orients the student in the games, being a great learning tool. Theworkconcluded that the games or activities can be applied in elementary education from the initial series to the final series, according to the students' difficulties, in order to have a better teaching and a better learning, generating promising and relevant results for the students, thus achieving meaningful learning.