Jogo digital como ferramenta facilitadora no exercício da matemática fundamental

Abstract

For students who start their first High School year in a technical integrated course, Mathematics is a hard understanding subject. Based on teachers’ reports to the pedagogical office stating the difficulties from students to resolve activities explained in class and after interviewing a group of students, this work identified reasons such as lack of attention/focus, difficulties on reading the texts and understanding the studied background, troubles on basic mathematical operations from elementary school. Thus, possible solutions were outlined. One option is the implementation of a digital game to be worked at school. This game provides the exercising of fundamental mathematical operations in a way to enhance cognitive aspects and the knowledge about the contents of the subject. It eventually provides a teacher’s feedback about the difficulties or facilities to resolve the questions the game presents. This work presents the proposal of the conceived game.