O uso da lógica de programação para a Educação Matemática no Ensino Médio: experiências com o Scratch

Abstract

This research investigate show the use of programming logic, through the programming language Scratch, optimizes the mathematics teaching process in terms of problems solving. Based on a socio-constructivist perspective of mediation and collaboration, it was conducted a case study with students of the last year of a state high school localized in the city of Pelotas/RS. This study takes into account the assumption that nowadays students are native in the digital world, accustomed and interested for this kind of technology. Data collection was made through mixed questionnaires, knowledge tests, and experiments with the Scratch. It was observed that the logic programming for the problems solving in addition to the group activity in the algorithms development allowed more dynamic and motivating classes. As result, students demonstrated being satisfied to learn mathematic through Scratch. Moreover, it was noted that this approach may contributes for the development of required skills in the training student process, if its consolidation be given in previous series.