A gamificação no ensino e aprendizagem da matemática.

Abstract

This research was carried out at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), aiming to investigate whether the development of gamification activities created by students of the discipline of "Information and Communication Technology in Mathematics I" of the Mathematics Degree course contributes to the teaching and learning of mathematics in initial teacher education. These productions were built with Schatch software; it is a tool to start the programming study. In their productions, the students used elements of digital games to be able to create gamification activities, which we call Digital Learning Objects (OAD). In the development of these objects, the students were free to use their imagination. Our research approach was the qualitative research, with a methodology of Case Study and as instruments of data collection; we used a questionnaire and an interview. Facing our theoretical reference when analyzing the three OAD of the students, we found in two elements that enabled us to call them educational activity, the other did not fit the characteristics. For this research, we show a bit of how to unite digital technology and Education is important. This union is necessary because the digital is present in the daily life of society and we conclude that it is possible to use it to teach and to learn mathematics.