Role playing game: metodologia complementar para o ensino e a prática de conceitos matemáticos

Abstract

This research study was aimed at the effectiveness of the Role Playing Game (RPG) as a playful and complementary methodology for the teaching and practice of mathematical concepts, focusing on interpersonal interactions and in the contextualization of the contents presented in the classroom. To establish the results we elaborated a questionnaire, which was tested, adapted and applied to students of 8th grade of a public school in the countryside of the city of Sobrado in the state of Paraíba. The analysis of the results indicates that students fail to make full use of the knowledge they acquire in the classroom to solve problems of their daily life and present difficulty in arguing and developing strategies that use concepts Mathematicians when faced with a situation that does not seem interesting to them. To remedy this difficulty we use the RPG as a tool to stimulate them to interact with each other, reason in order to develop strategies and express their ideas through argumentation and apply the knowledge that was previously acquired in the classroom, in a practical and dynamic way.