O ensino de algoritmos no ensino médio: por que não?

Abstract

This research investigates, through a strategy of teaching practice, the possibility of

teaching algorithms in high school, by a workshop with teaching activities, indicating

the possibility of developing it through an extra class and extra curriculum activity,

having as reference the application of algorithms, using concepts associated with the

Theory of Graphs and Mathematical Modeling technique. This activity was developed

with students from federal public school in Duque de Caxias a and a private school

located in the center of Duque de Caxias, where some facilities and difficulties have

been demonstrated by the students in the process of knowledge construction, integrating

data from a literature search and the results obtained in the proposed activity, and

producing, in this way, a study on a proposed reason of teaching and learning

algorithms and hence the mathematical modeling. The development of algorithm

thought, mathematical modeling techniques and the concepts of discreet mathematics is

essential in the development of mathematics, then science and technology. In a

computer world where we live in, it is necessary the individual’s cognitive

development. The introduction, in education, would give citizens the ability to live

actively in a world based on sequential procedures and interconnected in a logical way

which characterizes the algorithm.