<b>The Mathematics Teaching in the Early Years: Child Playing and Study Activitivy in the Mathematics Club

Abstract

This article presents some theoretical reflections on how to organize the mathematics teaching in the early years of elementary school. These thoughts occurred within the Mathematics Club project. In this project the play is taken as way of organizing teaching, in order to engage students in the study activity. So, our main objective is to analyze the actions and oral discourse of children, during the course of the Math Club, in trying to understand the playfulness enabled the students involved in the study activity. The methodological path chosen to delineate the research was the teaching experiment, organized by triggering learning situations, developed with twelve children of the fifth grade of elementary school. Conclusively, we realize that the pedagogical proposals led to situations of different actions demonstrations in subjects because they do not set off the same reasons the students, differentiating the quality of the acts. However, the playful, taken as a way of organizing the teaching is understood as potentiating the involvement of children to study, to contemplate the reality that still belongs to them, playing, and allow interactions between subjects.