Perceptions about the use of calculators by Pedagogy students: contributions, beliefs and reflections

This article aims to bring the perceptions regarding the use of the calculator in the Early Years of Elementary Education by students of the Pedagogy course of a Federal University of Minas Gerais. For this, we carried out a calculator workshop at the Mathematics Teaching Laboratory which consisted of four moments: filling in the initial questionnaire, theoretical discussion about the use of this tool, workshop and filling in the final questionnaire. At the end, quantitative and qualitative analyzes were performed regarding the responses obtained in the questionnaires, in order to analyze beliefs and perceptions about the use of this tool, in addition to having a parameter on the importance of a workshop focused on teaching that involves resources the calculator. At the end of this work, we concluded that there was a greater number of students interested in implementing the calculator in the classroom, in addition to all saying that they felt more secure about the use of this tool.

Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-SA

A person counts once a day per paper. We keep no cookie and no address: a reader is a hash that changes every day. Any month under five reads shows no number.