Utilização do software scratch como estratégia de aprendizagem de equações do primeiro grau para a educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

The Mathematics teaching process over the years has faced several challenges that negatively impact the development of student learning. The way that educators approach mathematical concepts is often not enough to resolve students' difficulties in learning. Due to this scenario, some methodologies have been gaining ground in the educational environment, one of which is the use of digital games as a pedagogical resource for developing mathematical skills and abilities. Therefore, this work presents the use of Scratch Software as a learning strategy to help overcome these challenges, and at the same time offer the opportunity for meaningful, interesting and motivating learning. Starting from this problem, we approach the fundamental concepts of first degree equations through the game entitled “Game of Equations” with the aim of analyzing how Scratch helps in the development and improvement of mathematical thinking. The research is quantitative and qualitative in nature, the subjects of this research are students of the Occupational Safety course of the 1st module of Proeja at the Federal Institute of Amapá. For data collection, an initial diagnostic activity, a questionnaire on the Google Forms platform and a final diagnostic activity were used to evaluate the proposal. The results of this work show that the use of the Software Scratch game proved to be effective in cognitive development and provided significant learning for students.