A educação ambiental como ferramenta no ensino da Matemática

Abstract

Mathematics stands out for being a subject of a huge preponderance in the students' lives, presenting abstract contents and with no concrete contextualization in the students’ point of view. Faced with such difficulty in relating school mathematics with the real problems, seeking to improve this traditional practice and in order to generate enthusiasm, participation, inquiry and reflection in students, it was developed this work that aims to use Mathematics as a tool of interaction with the issues of environmental education in school. The activities were developed with children in the fifth grade of the State School of Basic Education Augusto Ruschi, located in Santa Maria – RS. The methodology used for the development of this work, it was used the bibliographic, exploratory and case study. In order to generate the interaction between mathematics and environmental education activities that has been explored as a theme: the water and solar radiation, which called students attention over their importance and health risks. This way, it was emphasize the importance of using mathematical modeling as a new strategy of teaching and learning. It was also possible to notice that it would be possible to investigate the training of the school teachers to work with mathematical modeling and environmental issues. Therefore, it was analyzed how to work with environmental education in schools is important, because this strategy was able to involve students in real situations, and to develop such an understanding of the world they live in and positioning it critically and environmentally aware.