A importância do jogo dominó para o processo de ensino das operações de multiplicação e divisão no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This work try to understand how the multiplication and division dominoes game contributed to the teaching and learning of mathematics to students of a public school of elementary school in a class of 17 students. It is purposed as general objective analyze the importance of dominoes game in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Thus, historical aspects of the game were explored and identified specific skills in mathematics that can be improved through the dominoes game. So, there was an experiment moment with the game and data collection with the aplication of two questionnaires. The first questionnaire was done before the application of dominoes game, with the purpose of identifying the prior knowledge of students about multiplication and division. After the adapted dominoes game practice, a second questionnaire was applied to evaluate the evolution of student comprehension about the concepts studied, measurement of student difficulties and the identification of proposed strategies to solve the proposed mathematical problems. As a result, it was confirmed that the multiplication and division using dominoes contribute to the promotion of a more practical, dynamic, effective and fun teaching, that could stimulate the students and make mathematics more accessible and interesting for them, doing that the students lose fear for the subject, and so having admiration for mathematics besides that, it was pointed the potentialities of dominoes game as a pedagogical strategy in the teaching of mathematics that provides more interaction with the subject, better development in math classes and more companionship among them.