Laboratório de matemática e o uso de materiais manipulativos: um relato de experiência

Abstract

The present work has as its central theme the Laboratory of Mathematics Teaching (LEM) and our general objective was to present and discuss our experience in a public school in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, which has this structure. Our work at the school took place through a partnership between UFPB and the school that will be the target of our research, in a teaching project developed throughout the year 2018. predominantly descriptive. In our theoretical framework on LEM, we brought concepts and considerations delimited by authors who are dedicated to the subject, such as Lorenzato (2006), Passo (2006), Rêgo and Rêgo (2004) and others, and the readings we carried out enabled us to understand LEM in a perspective that goes beyond the physical space he occupies in a school. In addition to studying the collection of the school's Laboratory, we conducted an unstructured interview with the school's Mathematics teacher, who highlighted the importance of LEM for his pedagogical practice and student learning, but highlighted the fact that that the kits that are part of the collection do not have instructional material or suggestions for use in the classroom. Both through the teacher's statements and through our observation of the activities developed in the school's LEM, we found an increase in students' interest and participation when carrying out activities with manipulative materials, which can help them to better understand what they study. We also concluded that it is necessary for experiences linked to teaching laboratories to be carried out during the initial training of undergraduates, to prepare them for this practice, when they work in Basic education as teachers.