Uma análise sobre o uso de unidades de medida no cotidiano pelos alunos do centro escolar de tempo integral Severo Maria Eulálio

Abstract

Physics is one of the sciences that studies nature and, having an experimental character, the use of units of measurement is fundamental. As far as Physics teaching is concerned, a great difficulty is found in the association of this theme with its use in everyday practice, making the learning process even more difficult. From this, it was interesting to investigate the factors that made this assimilation difficult in two high school classes (1st and 3rd year) of the Severo Maria Eulálio Comprehensive School Center - Santa Cruz do Piauí, comparative study with the students of the two groups, aiming at an evolution of the research groups, from the conception level on the units of measures in the class of the first year, to the level of learning of the third year. With this, the present work had as general objective to understand the factors that entail the difficulties of the students in associating units of measures to the daily life in the teaching of physics. It was found that students from both classes presented difficulties in solving problems involving units of measures, and could not assimilate the concept of measuring. It was also observed that many of the students were not able to perform some unit conversions, not performing the necessary calculations, and yet they were often unable to associate some problems with their daily life. Therefore, as a possible solution, the teacher should seek to encourage and create forms of applicability of the units of measures, for a better learning in the classes of Physics