Gamificação no Geogebra: contribuições para o ensino de funções de segundo grau

Abstract

Technologies are present in people's daily lives in different situations and, no different, they should also be in the educational process. Technological tools such as the GeoGebra software are important for understanding mathematical content, where there is usually a lot of resistance and/or difficulties. However, the great challenge is to make the GeoGebra software more attractive and playful for the students, we seek in Gamification an ally for such action. In this way, the present work aims to present a proposal that identifies and evaluates the contributions of Gamification applied in the GeoGebra software for the learning process of Second Degree Functions, from the elaboration and application of the interactive Digital Educational Resource, called “GeoGebrando in the world of functions of the Second Degree”. The research has a qualitative approach and is theoretically based on scholars such as D'ambrosio (1999), Valente (1999), Kenski (2012), Lins (2012) among others. In accordance with the Design Experiment methodology, the digital educational resource was planned, developed and implemented, observing the cycles of testing, improvements and final validation, for which the Semantic Fields Model (MSC) was applied for the analysis of production of meanings of the students participating in the research. As a result, we observed that Gamification allied to GeoGebra provides greater dynamism and interactivity, leads the student to the center of the activity, awakening their proactivity, and it was even possible to observe that there was greater ease in the graphic visualization by the students when making use of the resource in the teaching Second Degree Functions, greater contact between students and fun during use. Discussions and strategies were produced by the participants during the activities. Perceptions were shared, resulting in several appropriations. Finally, the students produced meanings below expectations, correlating activities with other contents and disciplines, thus facilitating interdisciplinarity.