Educação de Jovens e Adultos: uma experiência envolvendo grandezas e medidas.

Abstract

This study aims to determine the importance of the study of greatnesses and measurements in the Youth and Adult Education (YAE), in addition to identifying the potentialities and limitations of the use of didactic material handling in teaching values and measures with students of this modality of education. The research was guided on the following problem: "What learning difficulties are there in education of young people and adults in relation to content greatnesses and measurements? ". The study is based on the following theoretical sources: PAIVA, MACHADO and IRELAND (2007), FARIAS (2012), HADDAD (1994) and FONSECA (2012), which deal with education for young adults as a central point of their research as well as from sources such as PAULA (2010), RODRIGUES (2007), FLEMMING (2005), among others who explore the subject of greatness and measures through didactic materials. The work was developed in the qualitative research. A field work in a public school in the state of Paraíba was carried out with a teaching class (YAE), which in the year 2018 studied the the final grades (5th to 8th grades), where an activity was used that approached the theme "Length study using manipulative materials". For this activity was used popsicle sticks, metric tapes and the palm of the hand to make measurements. After the application and analysis of the activity, we highlighted some limitations regarding the use of teaching material, more specifically in relation to the fact that we can not use it in all mathematics classes, because the material addresses a small part of the subject matter greatnesses and measurements, besides requiring a significant time demand for its execution. On the possibilities, we highlight the socialization of the groups, the interaction of content delivered in the classroom with the students’ daily living, as well as the development of mathematical ideas. It was identified that its use can mediate the construction of knowledge and can serve as a method to diagnose difficulties presented by the students. After analyzing the activity performed with the (YAE) class, it was concluded that the use of didactic materials in the teaching of greatness and measures helps in the development of mathematical concepts, making it a teaching and learning tool for the teacher. Another observed result has a connection with the interaction of the research participants, the activity with the didactic material led the students to exchange ideas on their own, being themselves builders of their knowledge.