The use of educational robotics in mathematics activities: what the dissertations of the PPGFCET say about this theme

• Autor(a) principal: Kalinke, Marco Aurélio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Actio (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/actio/article/view/14412
• topic: 7.08.04.03-6; Robótica Educacional; Mapeamento Sistemático; Educação Matemática.; Educational Robotics; Systematic mapping; Mathematics Education

The present article seeks for understandings about the relation: what the studies on the use of robotics in Mathematics’ teaching developed in the Graduate Program in Scientific, Educational and Technological Training of the Federal Technological University of Paraná say. The main goal was to verify what has already been produced, within the scope of the program, on the use of educational robotics (RE) to work with the contents of Mathematics. For that, it presents a Systematic Mapping, in a qualitative approach, which has mapped three dissertations developed in the program, one directed to elementary school, initial years, another to final years and a third focusing on high school. The mapping made it possible to build three categories. They are the support in the literature for the use of RE in the mathematical content’s teaching and learning processes; the use of RE in activities of mathematical content teaching; and how the work with RE and Mathematics has been going. Among the results, it was possible to notice that the literature indicates that it is feasible to use RE to work with mathematical content, but that this use has not been shown effectively in Brazilian schools. The mapped studies also indicate the feasibility of working with RE in parallel with specific methodologies, such as problem solving, but for this to occur, there must be a role for mathematic teachers. To collaborate so that this becomes a reality, the three educational products, related to the mapped dissertations, present proposals for activities that use the RE to work with Mathematical contents, such as: functions, elementary operations, probability and graphs, among others.