Jogos sociais: aprendendo equações matemáticas de 1º grau através do jogo social “Criminal Case” no Facebook.

Abstract

The present work investigates the learning of First Degree Mathematical Equations, using the online game Criminal Case, From Facebook. The analysis was conducted with students from a school in the countryside county named Camaquã, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The study field was the regular lessons and a game created on Facebook, with the leading question "How can a digital game promote the development of strategies for solving First Degree Mathematical Equations?". Considering the Social Network and online games as Virtual Learning Environments, the strategies of the game were brought to the classroom, serving as facilitators for the development of mathematical logic used in the calculation of the unknown First Degree Mathematical Equations. The methodology is qualitative, with nuances from case study and virtual ethnography, aiming to understand the strategies used in the game to solve the puzzle, which were posted and commented by students on the Facebook group. We sought theoretical and methodological grounding in Recuero, Sperotto, Souza, Alves and Moita on social networks, interactions, online games and subjectivity. The analyzes point out that the skills and strategies used in the game, besides the interactions between the students in debates on the Facebook group, are constitutions of subjectivity and facilitators of learning of Mathematical Equations devices.