Análise do baixo desempenho em matemática dos alunos do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental da Escola Estadual Getúlio Vargas (Belo Horizonte - MG)

Abstract

The present dissertation analyzes the low academic achievement levels in Mathematics among the students from the 6th grade and those from 7th grade taking 6th grade Math, at the State School Getúlio Vargas (Belo Horizonte/MG) – focusing on the subject‟s representations and meanings – and proposes an Educational Action Plan which aims to contribute to reverting this specific scenario of low failure and repetition rates. The study‟s enquiries and goals point to characteristics of an investigation that gives priority to qualitative analysis technics, in which the source of data is bibliographical research, documental analysis, survey, interview and observation. It was observed that, as far as the students are concerned, there is a lack of commitment and study habits, besides delay issues that are not dealt with and a gathering of concepts not learned that may generate lack of interest; given that the data has shown that the percentage of uninterested students and those who do not have study habits coincides with the percentage of students who fail each year. On the other hand, there is no collective planning that may guide the teachers‟ work, resulting in unarticulated pedagogical practices. The pedagogical management at the school is suppressed by the bureaucratic management and the work of manages remains focused on the immediate problems arisen from the school‟s day-to-day and the bureaucratic demands from the system. The action plan resulting from this investigation contemplated actions on three axis: 1) Teaching System: organization of a Support Group among the teachers with collective studies in order to adopt a system and collective conducts common to their teaching; 2) Continuing Formation: by means of a action-reflection-action based on studies, discussions and the search for collective solutions to the problems and as such promoting the improvement of the teaching knowledge, approach methodologies and content teaching and also revise the concept of assessment by means of problematizing and study; 3) Intervention with the students presenting difficulties by means of a student-tutor who teaches and also learns in an exchange and learning improvement. In our Educational Action Plan we have considered the need to remember the managers on a local level, who have been more occupied with administrative matters, of the pedagogical management as a point of convergence of all the other school management dimensions.