A matemática existente nos receituários médicos

Abstract

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the cognitive abilities of the public surveyed. Faced with the difficulties that most people present in relation to learning in Mathematics and its use and interpretation in everyday life, we seek to better understand this phenomenon through a descriptive research, in which the public is composed of residents of a peripheral neighborhood of João Pessoa. More precisely, the respondents are users of the services of the Family Health Unit, Employees I - 1 st stage, located in the Oitizeiro neighborhood. Through the use of questionnaires, we can observe categories of answers that more closely portrayed the reality of the participants of the above mentioned research. The results obtained were analyzed in order to establish a relation between the theory and the daily life of the target audience, being the research guided by the theories of Duval, Ausubel and Piaget. The following research leads us to a reality of many difficulties in obtaining and memorizing mathematical contents, both acquired through formal education and outside the school environment.