O YouTube como ferramenta de aprendizagem na matemática

Abstract

With the advancement of technologies, tools emerged to help in many areas of society, including education. Many websites, applications and other technological tools have emerged with the aim of helping students and teachers in the contents studied in the classroom. YouTube is a platform that emerged with the objective of sharing videos and that, over time, has become a great educational tool that helps in teaching, not only Mathematics, but other subjects as well. Thus, this work is concerned with analyzing the relationship of students with the Youtube platform as a tool for accessing mathematical content. Before the period of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 in Brazil, many students were already looking for ways to solve the difficulties they encountered in the classroom and, with the beginning of it, there was a need to adapt to remote teaching and teachers sought ways to broadcast their classes and maintain good communication with students online, so many of them chose to use YouTube as a means of transmission of classes, being possible to keep the videos stored on the website and read students' questions or comments about each posted lesson. In view of the experiences in the classroom, the theoretical foundation and a questionnaire applied to elementary and high school students, in order to identify the students' relationship with YouTube, we were able to verify the importance, advantages and disadvantages of this tool. With this, we conclude that YouTube is a tool that can be further explored in the classroom, both by teachers and students, to aid learning, especially during the pandemic period, in which in-person classes are still suspended.