Mathematics learning through elaboration of problems in a rural community school

Abstract

In the article, we present results of a research carried out with 5th year students of elementary school at a Municipal Rural Community School, whose objective was to investigate how problems developed by students can contribute to student learning. In this text, we present data constructed through participant observation and analysis of the textual plot of problems developed by students in a learning context that took into account content addressed in the generating problems developed by students in previous stages of the research. With a qualitative approach, research is configured as action research, and the data were subjected to textual discursive analysis from the records of the elaboration of problems and observations. The results demonstrate that most of the problems elaborated by the students were related to the fundamental operations of mathematics, especially the addition and multiplication, as well as the potential to develop aspects of students' creativity and criticality.

Keywords

• mathematics education
• elaboration of problems
• student learning