Concepções de estudantes da EJA sobre matemática e sobre o aprender matemática na escola

Abstract

This work presents reflections of an activity that aimed to investigate the conceptions of Mathematics and about learning Mathematics at school, of young students, adults and seniors, participants of EJA projects in the final years of Elementary and High Schools at UFMG. For this, we analyzed the students' productions in a dynamic applied in the first class by scholarship professors. In these productions, we notice recurrences that reveal the importance they attribute to Mathematics, especially for its usefulness in everyday life, but, at the same time, linked to failure in school life, when analyzing the learning of Mathematics. This proposal, in addition to knowing the demands of our students, served to guide the teaching and learning processes of Mathematics at EJA, in a proposal that takes into account the particularities of this audience.