O jogo de xadrez e a aprendizagem matemática: uma análise de possibilidades

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Tarcísio Mendonça de [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/118586
• topic: Matemática - Estudo e ensino; Desenvolvimento cognitivo; Jogos em educação matematica; Matematica recreativa; Xadrez; Mathematics Education; Game of Chess; Importance of the Games and Motivating Activity

The idea of this research is to analyze the possibilities of using chess as a nice alternative for motivating and teaching mathematics. The study was carried out in three steps, consisting of a literature review about the importance of games for education, followed by the importance that the game of chess has on the student's cognitive development and, finally, a qualitative analysis of data obtained by recording it. The data were taken from some activities performed in the 6th grade class of elementary education at a public school in the city of Roseira, state of São Paulo, in a team at the age 9 and 12 year-old students. The result of this research proved to be significant the use of chess game to teach math, we were able to verify that there was an easy assimilation of the subject, because when a student plays, he/she willdevelop skills in the game which becomes an incentive to study even more