A matemática não é um monstro: jogos teatrais e matemática em um curso de extensão para professores

Abstract

The work presented here presents an excerpt from the Professional Master's thesis, carried out in the Postgraduate Program of Teaching in Basic Education - State University of Rio de Janeiro, which articulated theater and Mathematics Education from an extension course, called Dramathematics, an educational product developed during the course, for teachers of the Early Years working in mathematics. In order to carry out the work, the following guiding question was considered: what mathematics do teachers in the early years develop from dramatic and / or theatrical games? In order to answer this question, activities were introduced in ten meetings to introduce the theatrical language and situations in which mathematics was presented in a
collaborative, critical and contextualized way. As a main objective we seek to understand how dramatic and / or theatrical games can contribute to the continuing education of mathematics teachers in the first segment of elementary school. The research deals with a qualitative investigation and, for data collection, the observation of the participants, continuous records, recording of the meetings and final evaluation of the course were carried out. The final evaluation contained six questions and, based on the answers, three categories were created. For this work we will expand the category “Demystification of mathematics (Mathematics is not a monster)”, seeking to understand the fear that, in a way, is historical and cultural in mathematics.