Jogos digitais educativos e o ensino da matemática: diferentes olhares e experiências

Abstract

This research aims to analize the mathe, atical teachers perception that work with digital games of the Mangahigh platform as a methodological resource. We seek to identify the possible contributions and limitations of this technology. Three schools located in the state of Rio de Janeiro were selected to join the Sesi Mathematics Program - one private and two public. Each school received the Sesi Mathematics program in a differentiated way. One of the public schools adopted it in the kit modality and the other two adopted it in the room modality. This program has the partnership of the English platform Mangahigh, which in addition to providing digital educational games and quizzes, also offers spreadsheets that are used to aid the work of the teacher. This is a research with a qualitative approach in the case study modality. The instruments of data collection were observation and semi-structured interviews with seven mathematics teachers from the mentioned schools. It was identified that digital games are resources that can contribute to increase student concentration, develop mental calculus, reinforce content previously seen and help students with learning deficits. We also note that the main limitation for its use is not school environment is in difficulty accessing the internet. Public schools teachers used the game to fill in blanks in the students learning which were not mastered content seen in previous years, on the other hand, private school teachers pointed that the majority of games were created for elementary school since they already used games in elementary and high school. Lastly, it is presented the teacher's different perceptions in the schools that used different ways of accessing.