O encontro de Júlio Cesar e Mello e Souza e George Pólya: uma narrativa ficcional sobre resolução de problemas de partilha

Abstract

Thinking about the teaching of mathematics in basic education and reflecting on the difficulties encountered by both teachers and students, a question raised for the production of this work was about how students deal with mathematical problems when placed in a context. It was with this in mind that this work was developed, bringing Pólya's methods, which was the precursor of the literature on problem solving, to solve some sharing problems present in the book "The Man who Calculated" by Malba Tahan, which brings mathematics in a recreational perspective, presenting it in a light and captivating way. This paper will present a biography of Professor Julio Cesar, including the creation of his pseudonym Malba Tahan, a brief bibliographic research about the sharing problems, based on the studies conducted by Jadilson R. Almeida (2011, 2016) and a bibliographic research about problem solving in the light of the work developed by George Pólya "The Art of Problem Solving". In the sequence a meeting of ideas is presented between the sharing problems in the book "The Man Who Calculated" and George Pólya's method for solving problems, with the aim of seeking solutions, to understand the solutions presented in the book, analyzing is one of de problems chosen solutions given by students of basic education. The work also seeks to study alternative means for the solutions found using tools such as Excel, for example.