O jogo senha e o princípio fundamental da contagem: uma aplicação no ensino médio

Abstract

This dissertation presents an approach on the game Mastermind for a second year Brazilian High School class, in the Mathematics Laboratory of the State school in full time Winston Churchill, in the year 2017. To achieve it, we will present the context of the teacher, of the school and of the students. We will expose to the theoretical basis, history, rules and versions of the game Mastermind and the mathematical content used in this application, the Rule of Product principle. We will shown how the planning and execution of the activity were done, finishing with a discussion on the survey applied to the students. For the construction of this work, bibliographic, documentary and experimental research were done. As a suggestion, a list of exercises is proposed to teachers, with questions that address the content of the Rule of Product Principle, drawn mainly from the National High School Exam, from Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática in Public Schools and from the second year mathematics book of the Brazilian High School, by Gelson Iezzi et al., from the year of 2016, Mathematics: science and applications. It has been verified that working with classroom games is important and interesting because it makes the student understand better the concept addressed in the classroom, even if the game occurs before or after the presentation of this concept, besides generating other skills in that subject, individual, and also it allows the teacher to present a class different from traditional chalkboard and chalk, leaving behind the daily routine that has been taking over our classrooms for a long time.