Algebra teaching in an eighth grade class at a public school in São Mateus - ES

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate possible contributions of the use of two educational games in mathematics classes, to teach the operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication of polynomials for a class of the 8th year of Elementary School, which had an investigative role, showing that students have difficulties in interpretation and therefore, difficulties in the transition from natural to algebraic and geometric language, as well as in important concepts such as perimeter and area. For this reason, teaching methodologies that aim to emphasize the interpretation of problems and the contextualization of this content to the students' reality become important, since some of them are unable to visualize the usefulness of these concepts on a daily basis.