Ensino da matemática: construindo oportunidades e perspectivas de mudança para a formação profissional e humana

Abstract

This study analyzes the possibility of becoming new alumni relations with the world and with mathematics, from a teaching project titled "The relationship between mathematics teaching and professional perspective for students of CIEP377 Carmen Silva". The universe of the study subjects is made up of thirty-five ninth graders of elementary school CIEP 377 Carmen da Silva in Belford Roxo in the State of Rio de Janeiro and three professionals from the Baixada Fluminense who are entered in the labor market. Data collection was accomplished through participant observation, interviews targeted to professional speakers, school staff, and also the three students, after completing the intervention, and questionnaires with open-ended questions to ninth graders before and after completing all the proposed activities. The theoretical framework was based on the ideas of Freire (2002, 2005), Kuenzer (2002, 2004, 2010), Fiorentini (2008), D'Ambrosio (2008), Dayrell (2007), among others. The results favor the consideration of a new way of teaching math that can, at some point, in the wake elementary students to recognize the need for greater engagement with formal education, specifically with mathematics, with a view to meet their professional expectations and life. We conclude that the teaching practice can also lead students to believe in their potential for personal and professional growth in their quest to be more. We hope that the study will encourage the growth of extra curricular activities in and out of classrooms that foster students' construction of identity and the strengthening of its civic education.