A contribuição do jogo de xadrez para o ensino de coordenadas cartesianas na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This study investigates the contribution of games in teaching mathematics, specifically, the use of a chess game for teaching cartesian coordinates in Youth and Adults Education (EJA). It was held in a school of the state school system located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, in the municipality of Paulista, with 12 students in a class of youth and adult education, high school level, in the night shift. The manipulation of the cartesian plane is configured with a frequent difficulty presented by the students. This difficulty is reflected in the resolution of contextualized activities that require both the ability to read the chart as the ability to interpret the given information. We believe that the game of chess can also make allowances for the development of the ability to interpret graphs since it is a game characterized by concentration, reasoning and choices of strategies. The study was conducted in six steps. In the first step, which we called motivational, we presented the research in order to motivate students to participate in the proposed activities from which we identified those ones who stood with the intention of joining the study, being presented to them the second stage of the research, which was the application of a questionnaire to identify the profile of participants. We then applied the pre-test to identify students' potential difficulties with the handling of graphics. From the data pre-test conducted ten meetings related to the stage of the intervention, which we call basic course of chess, since only one of the participants reported knowing how to play chess.The next step was the creation of the post-test to identify the possible contribution of the intervention on students' learning about the manipulation of graphics. In an interview conducted last step to see the students' understanding about the relationship between chess and mathematics and the level of acceptance of the insertion of that game as an educational resource. From the analysis of the results we identified that the game of chess shows significant relevance to students' learning about the use and manipulation of data in the graph.