Utilização do jogo Gate como mediador do ensino da matemática no primeiro ano do nível médio

Abstract

The Mathematics has become the leader discipline in research with a bigger index of students in support classes and also failing the year, especially in the first year of high school. To find the difficulties that lead to this context, the mathematics teacher can use as a solution the insertion of educational games as aids in learning, choosing them properly to find possible difficulties in teaching mathematics. Based on the assumption, the game Gate was chosen as object of study in E.E.M.Prof. Orlando Cavalcanti Gomes to identify the main difficulties in learning math in a first year high school class. The application of Gate served to analyze how the interactivity of the game, in addition to assist the teacher in improving the level of teaching of the medium level. For this, the students used the game and soon after, a personal assessment was made for each student, observing their level of satisfaction and difficulty that they had with the utilization of the Gate game. Through this process, it was possible to identify that many students presented great difficulty in the logical reasoning. Therefore, the utilization of the Portal served as an aid to verify the knowledges of the students acquired previously and to stimulate the logical reasoning.