Reflexões sobre o uso da Tábua de Pitágoras nas aulas de matemática

Abstract

This work has the general objective of recognizing and appropriating the benefits of the use of the Pythagorean Table in Elementary School from the 6th to the 9th year of the multiplication operation, enabling students to become more interested in the Mathematics discipline and a greater learning in a playful way. For this, the following specific objectives were cataloged: to elaborate a proposal of activities for the teaching of multiplication, with the aid of the Table of Pythagoras; to develop the proposal of activities involving ethnomathematics in the 6th to 9th grade classes; evaluate the proposed activities for teaching multiplication with the help of the Pythagorean Table; to motivate the students in a playful way with the use of the Pythagorean Table in order to reduce the lack of interest of the students in the discipline; exercise and stimulate logical reasoning and creativity through the Pythagorean Table. With the results obtained in a qualitative research carried out with 120 students of a Municipal School of the city of Pedro Régis, Paraíba, it was possible to verify that the multiplication is not dominated by the majority of the students, damaging the other contents dependent of her, however, doing use of the Pythagorean Table, this reality tends to change in a positive way, using a historical artifact as a playful methodology to captivate students and make the class dynamic, making it more productive.