Dificuldades de representação analítica da circunferência no 3º ano do ensino médio

Abstract

This study aimed do analyze the difficulties presented by students of the 3rd year of High School in solving problem situations involving the analytical concept of circumference. It was a qualitative-descriptive case study. The data collected of this study, involved twenty-three students of the 3rd year of High School in two schools, one of them from the public network and the other from the private network, both located in the city of João Pessoa-PB. The content analysis process was the procedure adopted for data analysis. The aforementioned process revealed difficulties in solving the problem situations investigated, mainly in what concerns the conversion of records.