A Matemática e o fracasso escolar: medo, mito ou dificuldade

Abstract

This paper has aimed to investigate the reason that the students show gap knowledge in the mathematics area and see if this fact is due to the fear or the myth about the subject or if these difficulties are not related to learning of basic concepts. In this paper the qualitative approach was a method adopted to carry out the research to investigate a contemporary phenomenon within a real context, where each object is treated as unique. The data were processed according to the content analysis and documentary analysis. The search for field was developed during the second semester of 2007 in a public school, belonging to the Birigui´s Board Education. The choice of school was based on the low-income school submitted by the managers. The study was designed with students in basic education, seventh series. First the students had been observed in their natural environment, in their classrooms. After that, was proposed to make an autobiography about his relationship with Mathematics. Then the students were interviewed. The action of teach was observe according to the methodology, planning class, evaluation and the relationship between the teachers and students. There were also reviewed the planning education, students notebooks and activities and the teacher´s daily. The gotten data had been treated through the "content analysis" and "documentary analysis". Both subject had been placed in evidences about the importance of the effective relations at the school indicating that this may contribute such for the success as the failure of the pupil causing fear and blockades into a relation with the Mathematics subject.