Mágicas e matemática

Abstract

One of the major obstacles in Mathematics teaching-learning process is the lack of student motivation. Most students have a certain rejection of the subject and this, in some regard, is related to a lock in the content learning process. It is a general consensus that magic tricks delight people from all over the world, bringing attention and arousing curiosity. In this Master's dissertation, we seek to build a bridge linking Magic and Mathematics, making use of tricks with Mathematics as a source of inspiration and as an alternative motivation for learning the mathematical concepts. Using a conventional card game, it was possible to develop a good number of tricks, in which Mathematics is clearly present. For each one of them, we construct the adequate mathematical explanation. A theoretical foundation in Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Education is formally presented to emphasize the importance of searching for alternatives that aim to awaken student interest in learning Mathematics. For the application and evaluation of this work we make use of the Didactic Engineering methodology and all its stages. As a final product a blog was created with all the processes stages detailed