A mobilização do pensamento algébrico através da resolução de problemas enxadrísticos

Abstract

This master’s dissertation reports a research that aimed to analyze the algebraic thought that the Chess Game mobilizes in girls and boys through the resolution of the chess problems. Such analysis was made through observations of the students’ participants Language games. The theoretical frameworks that support this study are anchored in the Ethnomathematics in Language Games and in algebraic thought. The Algebraic thinking was relevant in this work in the sense of showing the possibilities of its manifestation, in addition to the work in school mathematics. The research was carried out with a group of students from elementary School. Algebraic thinking, using of standards and regularities; using of symbolism; construction and analysis of hypotheses and (re) doing strategies had being used during the analysis; abstraction and generalization-to point evidence of this mobilization. With this study it was possible to notice importance of considering cultural aspects that mathematics does, and not just the one worked in school. When dialoguing with Ethnomathematics this study approached the students in another way of doing math, in this case, the one existing in the Chess Game.