Trabalhando a porcentagem em situações do cotidiano: um estudo numa escola da Rede Municipal de Itapetim-PE

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Work presents as its central theme the importance of using Percentage in everyday situations that favor the teaching-learning of mathematics; having the main objective of presenting the main historical records about the origin of the Percentage study. Initially, some of its historical aspects were discussed, as well as, later on, some problem situations related to the theme were proposed, presenting resolution methods; and, finally, to confront such theoretical foundations, in the pertinent statements of Castro Filho (1995), Dantas (2019), Imenes (2009), Maluf (2007), Parra (1996), Ribeiro, (2016), among others , we obtained primary data from the application of questionnaires applied to teachers and students of the 8th year of elementary school, in an institution in the municipality of Itapetim-PE, focusing, based on the results obtained, among others, that the use of dynamic methodologies and contextualized, for example, through games, they prove to be effective instruments in promoting student learning, not limited to the traditionalism of memorizing formulas and rules, but, above all, knowing how to use them and understand them in the context in which it is inserted.