Jogos matemáticos como metodologia de ensino

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze the importance of games for teaching and learning mathematics in the classroom, trying to improve student performance. Within this work, we will approach the use of mathematical games as a facilitator method in the teaching-learning process. The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980 apud ALMEIDA, 1974, p. 51), states that “due to the fact that games are such a powerful means for children's learning, wherever they manage to turn them into educational initiatives, reading or spelling, it is observed that children fall in love with these occupations considered boring”. The research work was carried out in a class of the 8th grade. A of the Elementary School Vereador Manoel de Almeida – Cacimbas – PB, and showed some difficulties that students have in learning mathematics and that teachers have in teaching it. We carried out an intervention with games inside the classroom to stimulate logical reasoning, creativity, group work and help students in the process of building knowledge, providing them with opportunities to expand their knowledge through interactive playful activities and experience. The result was a radical change in their view of the discipline of mathematics.