Utilização do modelo pictórico da Matemática de Singapura em resoluções de problemas para os 5o e 6o anos do ensino fundamental, dentro da proposta curricular do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

Teaching mathematics is a challenge for both educators and students. It is usual to notice the lack of interest of students in Mathematics, especially when it is associated with letters and symbols, missing its real meaning. But this lack of interest usually appears exactly in the transition between cycles I and II of elementary school, specifically between the 5th and 6th grades. The cycle transition is also the transition between “Concrete” Mathematics, with manipulative materials, and “Abstract” Mathematics, with its symbols and its own language. The work presents the use of a pictorial model of Singapore Mathematics, called the Bar Model, in order to ease and make the passage of cycles satisfactory, thus creating a bridge between the concrete and the abstract in order to alleviate the difficulties of students in this transition. For this purpose, problem situations for the 5th and 6th years were selected from the State’s official instructional material in accordance with the curricular proposal. These were developed using the Bar Model methodology.