PERSPECTIVAS DE UTILIZAÇÃO DO GOOGLE EARTH COMO RECURSO DIDÁTICO À LUZ DA ABORDAGEM DE ENSINO ETNOMATEMÁTICA

Abstract

This study highlights the importance of Meaningful Learning in the school context, aiming to identify the indicators of Meaningful Learning related to the use of Google Earth for teaching perimeter and area of plane geometric figures in the light of Ethnomathematics. It is noticeable that, when the student has prior knowledge about a certain subject, studying it in a contextualized way, makes it more meaningful and, consequently, learning tends to be meaningful. It is noteworthy that the insertion of technological and digital resources in the teaching process has become a necessity due to the increased use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC), especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, in which classes were remote for a period. In addition, teaching platforms were inserted in the school context. In this perspective, it is understood that resources offered by technologies can help relate pedagogical activities to the social context of the student. Regarding the teaching of Mathematics, when it comes to Rural Education, where most students are children of farmers, one example is working on the concept of perimeter and area of the land owned by the students' parents or relatives, using remote sensing software, among these resources are free access applications, such as Google Earth. In this scope, we seek to answer the following question: what are the indicators of Meaningful Learning provided by the use of Google Earth as a teaching resource from the perspective of the Ethnomathematics teaching approach? To this end, the investigative process of this qualitative and descriptive-comparative research was based on the application of three methodological phases, the first being an exploratory phase, which included a search for works related to the theme in question to establish the research scenario, while the second consisted of data collection to gather detailed information about the objects of study and, finally, data analysis, which followed the perspective of Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), in order to describe and compare the objects of study. As a result of the research process, an educational product was developed that considers Meaningful Learning, a study anchored in the conception of Moreira (2011, 2017), which is a notebook of Potentially Significant Teaching Units (UEPS), and a manual for the teacher, in order to serve as a subsidy to educators regarding the teaching of the concept of perimeter and area of flat geometric figures through the technological resource Google Earth, addressing a way of working these concepts in a contextualized and meaningful way. It was possible to identify Meaningful Learning indicators related to the use of Google Earth for teaching areas of flat geometric figures in light of the Ethnomathematics teaching approach and, in effect, the results of this research will provide strategies for Mathematics teachers to introduce these resources into their teaching practices.