Os jogos sudoku e sokoban como mediadores no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de matemática

Abstract

This study aimed to report school practices with Sokoban and Sudoku games available on the Brazili-an websites “Racha Cuca” e “Só Matemática”. An investigation in-school action focused on a qualita-tive comment on the strategies used by students when they are playing. This research aimed to eva-luate if the games are suitable to mediation teaching and learning of mathematics. This may mean that in the Sudoku game, the rules require the student to conduct a planner's best response, taking him to anticipate and reflect on what the conditionals that are being addressed and what number the student is choosing. After some play time, some students have corrected the position of trial and error and be-gan to act with more thought and planning, as if they were faced with a problem situation, also, de-monstrating less anxiety to get an answer quickly. The Sokoban game encouraged the students from the beginning, ensuring the motivation of these. However, it was found that students easily seek the solution by trial and error, choosing different paths to get the desired response. Some students demon-strated that they planned the way to go after several moves of trial and error. It was noticed that the Sokoban and Sudoku games in the teaching and learning of mathematics had resources that can pro-vide the student with an improvement in attention, reflection and planning a strategy for obtaining the best response in the face of problem situations.