Um estudo sobre o desenvolvimento do pensamento algébrico de alunos ingressantes do curso de licenciatura em matemática da UTFPR câmpus Cornélio Procópio

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the indicators of development of algebraic thinking manifested by incoming students of the course of Mathematics Degree, of the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Câmpus Cornélio Procópio, through problem solving. The present research has a qualitative approach, seeking the understanding of particular aspects of the participants. For the data collection, an instrument was developed with seven problems involving algebraic contents, which was applied to a group of thirty-seven incoming students of the course of Mathematics Degree of the UTFPR-CP in the discipline Mathematics Fundamentals 1, in the first semester of 2018. An instrument composed of four questions was also applied in order to know the personal aspects of the students. An analysis was made of the participants' resolutions, based on the indicators of the development of algebraic thinking. The results indicated that the participants contemplated the indicator (2) Understand and try to express arithmetic / algebraic structures corresponding to a problem situation. However, in the other indicators the index reached was less than 50%.