“Fotomatizando”: conexões entre fotografia e matemática nos anos finais do ensino fundamental de uma escola municipal de Pelotas/RS.

Abstract

This work deals with a research carried out in 2019 that had as an investigative theme the use of photographs, initially proposed by the teacher and later taken by the students, in order to teach mathematical concepts to students of the final years of elementary school in a municipal school in the municipality from Pelotas, RS, Brazil. The main objective of the research was to analyze how students relate concepts of proportionality, symmetry, angles and perspectives, with photographic techniques, as well as the effects produced in relation to this relationship. To this end, a qualitative research was carried out in line with the ideas of Bogdan and Biklen (1994), through Action Research, based on Gil (2002) and Thiollent (2011). The methodological procedures were: Observations, photographs and group conversations from WhatsApp, as well as a Microgenetic Analysis theoretically based on Goés (2000). The theoretical framework includes the assumptions of an education for youths under the bias of culture presented by Hall (1997), Lipovetsky and Serroy (2008) and Foucault (1999a). Already, related to the fundamentals of photography, it counted on Barthes (1984), Präkel (2015), Freeman (2012a), Freeman (2012b) and Hacking (2012). This dissertation presents the hybridization between photography and mathematics, based on the experience covered by Larossa (2002) and Alves (2010). The viable means of this research was a Digital Photography Course for beginners, which enabled the interventions, observations and analyzes that supported it. As observed results are the students' perception of the application of mathematics in everyday life, mediated by photography, as well as their understanding of the concept of perspective, based on the constancy of scale present in the captured photographs, of the concept of proportionality, highlighted in the correct configuration of the exposure of the photographs, in addition to the other concepts present in the developed techniques.