Problemas biológicos e a matemática: uma proposta interdisciplinar para a educação básica

Abstract

The big demand for diferents specializations that came with the industrial revolution in the 19th century resulted in the fragmentation of the teacling system, significantily contributing for the vision that each subject of the school curriculum should be worked in an isolated way. Nowadays with the change of this view of teaching, expressed in the documents that regulate the curriculum in Brazil, one of the challenges is to work the contents of the subjects in a integrated way, breaking the compartmentation of disciplines through interdisciplinary work.Taking this into account, the focus of this dissertation is to present biological problems where we can apply the mathematics of basic education and the objective is to identify the opinion of a group of 20 teachers about the possibility of using some of these biological problems in their classes, that is, if from their point of view, the application of these activities is feasible with their students, and identify possible positive aspects or challenges of interdisciplinarity between biological and mathematics. For the consultation of the teachers, five problems were selected: garbage decomposition, covid-19, fish growth, methods of determining microbial growth and genetic crossing, these problems were selected for addressing environmental and health issues of great social importance, or by involving curious and interesting reflections.The research is classified as field research, qualitative, that was applied through sequential questionannaires. The data and information obtained were analized according to the methodology of discursive textual analysis, and the results pointed to the validation of biological problems as interdiciplinary problems applicable to students, by the group of teachers, who found the problems attractive for students and facilitators the process of teaching and learning.