Robótica educativa e conhecimentos de área e perímetro de figuras planas

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the issue of how teacher training for teaching robotics can enrich the learning of geometric concepts, such as area and perimeter, and encourage the participation of students in the 5th year of elementary school in Educational Robotics Tournaments. The main objective is to develop a self-formative guide to guide teachers in preparing students for these tournaments, with a focus on teaching geometry. The study proposes the integration of Educational Robotics as a technological tool to help teach mathematics, especially the concepts of area and perimeter, in the early years of education. To achieve this purpose, a self-training guide was prepared and delivered to three participating teachers. This guide was built around a planned Sequence of Activities. Teachers evaluated the material provided and answered an electronic questionnaire, generating empirical data that were submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA). The analysis revealed four axes of evaluation: 1) Vision of what educational robotics is; 2) The viability of the self-training guide: between theory and practice; 3) The sequence of activities and didactic resources: the contribution to area and perimeter teaching; 4) The contribution of the Auto-Formative Guide to encourage the participation of students and teachers in educational robotics tournaments. The resulting product of this research is an e-book entitled "Self-training Guide for Teachers". This guide aims to sensitize teachers to the teaching of geometry, specifically area and perimeter, through educational robotics. In addition, it seeks to encourage student participation in Educational Robotics Tournaments. The results indicated that, according to the teachers interviewed, the educational guide developed can effectively contribute to the teaching and learning of area and perimeter, in addition to promoting the successful participation of 5th grade students in educational robotics tournaments.