Grupo de professores em um projeto de feiras de matemática: contribuições para a prática docente

Abstract

This research, aimed at the pedagogical practice in an interaction context, has the scope to investigate the involvement of a group of mathematics teachers in a project of Mathematical Fairs, seeking to discuss how these teachers act in the final years of primary and secondary education and how they got involved in this project. The qualitative research was developed through observations, questionnaires and interviews with the group of teachers who, together with their students, held the Fairs in their respective municipal and state schools in the city of Juiz de Fora (MG). The instrument of analysis and interpretation of the data happened from the process of Action Research, in a qualitative research approach, when I experienced all the Fairs as a researcher and as a teacher. The formation phase of the action research group was achieved through a partnership between the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and the State Secretariat of Education of Minas Gerais. From this perspective, the following objectives were pursued in this study: to investigate the participation of teachers in developing a proposal of Mathematical Fairs as a shared work tool; to identify the extent to which the Mathematics Fairs contribute to the development of mathematical knowledge, how the teaching practice is organized and how their pedagogical strategies are; present the conceptions of Mathematics Fairs; understand the expectations that Mathematics Fairs can provoke in students and teachers about teaching / learning of mathematics, in a Mathematical Education field. After analyzing the data, we verified that the teachers perceived not only the meaning of the Fair, but also the positive effect of their activities in math classes. It was felt that the teachers who proposed to hold the Fairs were involved and interacted with the students, demonstrating their motivation and willingness to work together in the classroom.