Caracterização da utilização das TICs pelos professores de matemática e diretrizes para ampliação do uso

Abstract

The modernization of Mathematics and the creation of the Brazilian Society of Mathematics Education signaled a change in teaching this discipline focused to students’ reality. This dissertation investigates the use that Mathematics teachers make of Information and Communication Technologies. For diagnosis and characterization of this scenario an instrument, a questionnaire, was applied in three different groups of Mathematics teachers: teachers of the Mathematics Educational Program; from the University distance education program; teachers from the Master degree program in Mathematics Education: and teachers from public and private schools in Juiz de Fora and its neighborhood. The first results indicate the restricted use of technology by teachers in learning activities and that even those who use distance education management systems to study are not considering their use with the students. At the end of the study we define a set of guidelines that may help teachers, managers and professors to increase the use of computers and distance education technologies among mathematics teachers.