Alegorias do festival de Parintins um recurso didático para o ensino da geometria plana

Abstract

This study analyzes knowledge regarding the making of pageantry of the Parintins Festival, which includes notions of mathematics. It aims to present the making of pageantry as an educational element for teaching flat geometry in the 7th grade of middle school. Methodology was based on qualitative research that employed the phenomenological approach and focused on a case study, using observation and open and closed interviews for collecting data. As research subjects there were 02 Boi Bumbá Caprichoso artists and 27 students in a 7th grade class of a state middle school in Parintins, Amazonas. It is possible to understand that teachers have difficulty understanding and teaching flat geometry; concluding that artists have unconsciously used these contents in the making of pageantry; identifying mathematical notions, such as flat and spatial geometry, measurements, calculations, among others; thus achieving our goal of using such pageantry as a catapult for teaching flat geometry. Keywords: Pageantry making, Educational resource, Flat geometry.