O ensino de medidas de áreas com o enfoque CTS

Abstract

The main goal of this research was to check the contributions of the CTS approach, by means of critical mathematics education to the area measures teaching. The activities developed about the specific content of area measures followed the assumptions of the STS approach – in the grafting modality, using free media resources available in sites of universities and public organ. The application of the research happened as workshops in a certain university in Cascavel, Paraná state, with a group of students in the second grade of an undergraduate Math degree. The collected data during and after the application of the research were analyzed in a quantitative and qualitative form, once the research was applied. The results showed an interesting involvement of the students, developing different points of view towards the learning ability. Such points of view refer, among others, mainly to the dialogue among the participants by the time they discuss the current everyday situations, which not always can be realized; another important factor was the act of creating materials with the possibility to make associations and comparisons. Besides, also as a result of the work, all of the activities were presented as an educational product, whose aim are future works and the teacher who is interested in apply it in his classes.