Perceptions students about mathematics teaching in a 5th year elementary school class

Abstract

This article presents a course completion work research, whose objective was to investigate student perception in a 5th year elementary school class at a school in the city of Linhares, state of Espírito Santo. The teaching of mathematics in the Initial Years of Elementary School is an important curricular component for the initial stage of student training, especially with the new organization of thematic units provided for in the National Common Curricular Base - BNCC (BRASIL, 2017). The research is considered applied with a qualitative approach of the field research type with the case study method. Discussions are presented from BNCC and authors specializing in the topic in question. As a data construction instrument, we used interviews carried out with students from the class in question, under Content Analysis, based on thematic categories defined a priori. The research results demonstrate that students are afraid and feel insecure when talking about the mathematics curricular component. Most students like math classes, but they would like math classes to be more dynamic.