Educação Matemática no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19: reflexões de professores de uma escola do Ensino Estadual em Pelotas

Abstract

This research makes an analysis of questionnaires applied to five mathematics teachers of a school of the State School System, in the city of Pelotas, high school. These teachers worked in Mathematics Education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this work is to analyze, in the teachers' reports, the main challenges that occurred in the teaching of mathematics in this period. The specific objectives of the research are: to identify the main changes and adaptations that needed to be made by them, the main challenges and obstacles they faced in this period, the modifications in teaching materials, how was the evaluation process and what were the main reflections that this period left. It is a qualitative research, which will have a descriptive character, it is a Case Study in which questionnaires are analyzed, data analysis is based on Discursive Textual Analysis. The results obtained show that the pandemic period was a time of adaptation, it had obstacles, but also growth, especially in relation to teachers, who had to learn and reinvent themselves. The reports show a lot of difficulty on the part of the students, which reflects today, how is the teaching of mathematics in schools. The research text consists of an introduction, a memorial, a brief contextualization of the analyzed period, a small legislative context, the state of knowledge, based on works produced in this period, the methodology used, the analysis of the data and the final considerations of the research.