Que matemática acontece no Projeto de Reforço Escolar para o 2º Ciclo de ensino? Uma experiência com os/as professores/as polivalentes da Rede Municipal de Educação de Niterói

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the Mathematics Education of the initial years practiced in contexts of learning recovery. To this end, it takes as a privileged locus of research the School Reinforcement Project for the 2nd cycle of education, instituted in the Municipal Network of Education of Niterói in the year 2015. The presentation of the Project in this investigation is configured from the analysis of the document that had it instituted in said Network, whose objective was to offer reinforcement classes addressing the Portuguese Language and Mathematics for students who, after diagnostic evaluation, had been considered with poor performance against the skills expected for the referred cycle. The research has a predominantly qualitative character and has been developed in spaces of continuous formation, in which the researcher accompanied a group of teachers who taught to the students indicated for the School Reinforcement Project. The objective of the research was to understand the conceptions of teaching mathematics from what the subjects expressed about their practices in an initial questionnaire, written reports and transcribed testimonies of interviews. The analysis of the data allowed me to conclude that the material conditions of work and the continued formation are important elements, although not the only ones, for the improvement of the teaching practice.