LEARNING GEOMETRY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL USING MANIPULABLE MATERIALS

Abstract

The teaching of geometry in the early years of elementary school should contribute to students be able to move properly in the context in which they spend their lives. However, even being an important area of mathematics, in the school space geometry does not receive attention that it deserves. Overcoming this situation is a challenge for teachers who teach manthematic to children of this educational level. One option is the development of active teaching methodologies based on the use of manipulable materials that allow students to experience at a concrete level the geometric knowledge. In order to verify this option, the research was developed here exposed whose guiding question was: The development of classes based on the use of manipulable materials, In the context of an active methodology, contributes to the acquisition of key geometric concepts that students from the early years of elementary school should learn? The research had exploratory and descriptive character, and was developed in the modality of case study, being carried out in a public school (municipal) The study is located in the interior of Minas Gerais and involving a class of third year students. The active methodology implemented was a Pedagogical Workshop in which students were to build a Tetrahedral Kite. The research allowed to obtain evidence related to learning the concepts of triangle and tetrahedron; the students experienced the importance of collective work for the production of knowledge and the development of mathematical thinking, as well as understanding that, by working together, there are added opportunities to draw conclusions, describe and represent, in an organized way, the steps of any Learning activity.