Manifestações da criatividade em modelagem matemática nos anos iniciais

Abstract

The theme of this research arose from the interest in the questions related to creativity in Mathematical Modeling and resulted in the production of a workbook - educational product of this research. The data collection occurred with a 5th grade of elementary school. In this context, the work brings the following problematic: What aspects of creativity emerge from the manifestations of fifth graders when performing Mathematical Modeling activities? From this questioning, we sought to conduct a literature review on creativity, mathematical creativity and Mathematical Modeling; elaborate Mathematical Modeling tasks that can trigger creative actions by the students; discuss characteristics of Mathematical Modeling related to emerging aspects of creativity; and perform a refinement of the educational product, modeling activities, based on the work considerations. For data collection, we used a mobile application for audio recording, a camera for video capture, and written production of students. For this work, we believe that Mathematical Modeling is one of the ways that can stimulate and engage students and provide the opportunity to learn mathematical content (VERTUAN, 2007). Regarding creativity, we believe that the activities used in the classroom can contribute to their development, verified in the dimensions presented by Alencar (1990): fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration of ideas. In this research, we found that the relationship between Mathematical Modeling and Creativity occurred through the following categories of analysis: Creativity triggered due to students' knowledge about the investigated situations; The active role of students in solving mathematical modeling activities and as contributions of development in groups; Interest in the topic and student engagement in the development of the Mathematical Modeling activity; An experience in mathematical modeling activities as a tool for the emergence of creative products.