Educação ambiental: possibilidades a partir do ensino da matemática

Abstract

The great difficulty in understanding the mathematical contents experienced by most of the students in the schools, in the High School in particular, is many times credited to the lack of applicability of mathematical knowledge in daily situations. In fact there is a distance between the Mathematics that is taught in the school and the one that is used in the resolution of daily problems. From this perspective the teaching of the subject has contributed so that students have become unmotivated and apathetic in the learning process. Facing this reality and based in the need of producing a campaign for environmental education in the schools, in a systematic and transversal way and in all education levels, this study intends to show a method to place the environmental thematic in the education of Mathematics on basic education. For such task different activities have been created that link mathematical contents with the environmental thematic. The method employed in the creation of such activities is the Mathematical Modeling, understood as teaching-learning strategy, through which real situations are changed into mathematical problems. This work methodology makes possible to bring the reality for the classroom. It also approaches problems that are related to the day-to-day of the students, and in this case it makes possible the interaction of the Mathematics with the environment question.