O ensino de geometria plana e espacial na Licenciatura em Matemática da UFMT no campus universitário do Araguaia – possíveis contribuições para potencializar a aprendizagem de alguns estudantes calouros

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate some learning problems in geometry of some freshmen students of the Licentiate in Mathematics course, as well as to propose a pedagogical intervention in order to alleviate these problems, with a view to reducing failure in this discipline and possible evasion of course. As a theoretical framework, the assumptions of Van Hiele's theory of levels of geometric thinking were used. This study was qualitative and used case study procedures, with 5 freshmen students as research subjects. We used, as a data collection instrument, 2 Educational Diagnostics (ED) and a pedagogical intervention, carried out in two meetings, with the objective of alleviating the possible learning problems detected in the 1st ED. As a result of research, it was found that students had difficulties in concepts and properties addressed in basic education, such as classification of triangles and concepts related to median and incenter. After the interventions and application of the 2nd ED, we identified that some problems were alleviated, however, we understand that learning is a slow and timeconsuming process.