O jogo de xadrez e a educação matemática

Abstract

This work aims to identify the importance of the game of chess and its relevance in the school environment, more precisely in mathematics education. And also the possible moves of chess on the board, highlighting the knight, as one of the fundamental pieces in the elaboration of moves, having as main objective of the research, the probability of these moves. The methodology used was bibliographical research, with a qualitative methodological approach, exploring the studies of other researchers and authors, who naturally wrote about the game of chess and the subjects connected to the game. Several materials from different authors were analyzed during this research, which showed that no author reported that chess was just a hobby game, but that it is a rich game, with aspects that develop the cognitive capacity of practitioners. A great ally of educators in the teaching – learning process in the field of mathematics more precisely, for allowing it to be used as a pedagogical instrument, to remedy the needs of the multidisciplinary teaching process in the school environment. Therefore, the present work was conclusive in view of the fact that chess is of great importance in school education, it is connected in some way with the daily life within schools because it is a game that works on learning, logical reasoning and the way of think of each student, satisfactorily bringing various results.