Aprendizagem de Potenciação utilizando atividades investigativas em uma turma do 7º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública municipal de Tefé/AM.

Abstract

Mathematical research is an Education Trend that consists of discover relationships and patterns seeking to identify and prove the properties and hypotheses raised by the researcher (PONTE, 2003). The most interesting thing is that it encourages the student to leave his comfort zone, encouraging you to interact and discover solutions formulations from answers found, in fact, allows interaction with classmates and teachers. In terms of addressing this trend in learning the content of Potentiation, it proves to be an important methodological strategy, as it leads the student to intuit, conjecture, experiment, prove, evaluate, and present the result (s) found, reinforcing attitudes of autonomy, cooperation and oral and written communication skills (PONTE; BROCARDO; OLIVEIRA, 2006). The differential of working with Mathematical Investigation is the mutual connection of all stages of activities ranging from the recognition of the problem to the assessment of the result of reasoning. Thus, it is important to explain that the student has the responsibility to demonstrate initiative in the search for justified discovery and the Teachers should not provide answers or paths about solving activities. Portuguese studies (PONTE, 2002) have shown that conducting investigations mathematics in class can contribute to promoting student learning. They indicate that they lead students to develop new skills and acquire new knowledge. Students have difficulties in learning this discipline and research mathematics is one of the methodologies that the teacher can use to mitigate these problems that students encounter in the learning process. Based on the above, this research aims to investigate the following problem: How Mathematical Research can contribute to the students' learning process students of a class of the 8th year of Elementary School regarding the Potentiation content.