Between shapes and figures, a geometric garden: a proposal supported by Modeling and Gamification

Abstract

This minicourse aims to provide a dynamic, interactive, and meaningful formative experience for participants, through a practice that combines characteristics of Mathematical Modeling in the perspective of Mathematics Education, hereinafter, Mathematical Modeling, and Gamification in Education, involving the Tangram. As it intends to promote an experience within the scope of training, it is expected that the target audience will be undergraduate students in Mathematics Teaching, Pedagogy, teachers, researchers, among others. Sixteen spots will be available for participants in this proposal, focusing on the development of Mathematics Teaching practices aimed at Elementary Education. Regarding the procedures, in the first moment, the conceptions of Mathematical Modeling (Almeida; Silva; Vertuan, 2012) and Gamification in Education (Alves, 2015), which support the proposed actions, will be presented; in a second moment, participants will be invited, in groups, to develop some stages supported by certain challenges, therefore, which will require the mobilization of mathematical knowledge, logical reasoning, collaborative work, effective communication, among other skills, as well as the investigation of a real problem involving the construction of a “geometric garden”, involving the Tangram. At the end of the experience, it is expected that participants will be able to (re)recognize the presence of elements of Mathematical Modeling and Gamification in the proposed and developed practice, as well as reflect on the limits and possibilities of this approach for Mathematics teaching in Basic Education.