Jogos matemáticos como instrumentos facilitadores no ensino das quatro operações nas séries finais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present article with the theme Mathematical Games as facilitating instruments in the teaching of the four operations in the final grades of elementary school and aims to use the games as facilitating resources in the teaching of the four mathematical operations. Based on the theory of great authors such as Vygotsky (2002) and Piaget (1975, 1996) who recommend and defend the use of games in teaching. The research was carried out using a qualitative approach, with action research characteristics. The target audience was students from a 6th grade class of Elementary School and a mathematics teacher from a State Indigenous School, located in the rural area of the Municipality of Pesqueira-PE. The data revealed that games are important resources that arouse interest and have the positive effect of increasing participation, interaction, and student involvement in the learning process of the four operations as long as it is planned and developed with focus and objective. We intend, therefore, with this study to provoke a reflection on the relevance of the use of games as an important tool in the teaching-learning process of mathematics in the final years of Elementary School, as a way of overcoming mechanical, repetitive, meaningless teaching.