Elementary School students interacting and learning about quadrilaterals in activities with smartphones
Geometry; Mobile devices; Touches on screen.
This research seeks to contribute to improvements in geometry learning and to reflect on the singularities of touching the screen in learning concepts and properties of quadrilaterals. It is a pedagogical intervention in the practice itself, developed through tasks with different purposes (identification, conceptualization and classification of quadrilaterals). The design of the tasks had as one of the structuring axes the use of GeoGebra on smartphones. The field work was divided into six meetings and was implemented in 2022 in a private school in the municipality of Seropédica with students of the sixth year of Elementary School. were produced through written records, screenshots and files created by the students, and the researcher's field diaries. The results indicate that the tasks done with the help of the students' own smartphones and the class dynamics contributed to the construction of concepts properties, for example: the idea of congruence established by the students, the particularities and intersections of the properties of quadrilaterals, ideas of perpendicularity. As a product, we propose a sequence of activities with possible answers and didactic guidelines for teachers.