ETHNOMATHEMATICS: A STUDY ON MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CERAMIC PRODUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY REMINDER OF QUILOMBO DOS PALMARES-AL
Ethnomathematics. Quilombola Remnant Community. Comics (HQs). Mathematics Education.
Throughout our history, different social groups have produced/produce knowledge and experiences that are the result of their daily experiences, as people loaded with meanings that bring techniques, organization processes and even counting, measurements and geometric shapes that make sense to the space in which they live. Thus, with the concern to promote possibilities of teaching and learning mathematics, in the need for valuing and rediscovering knowledge, this research was developed in order to understand the mathematics that is subtended by the cultural group of the remaining quilombola community of Múquem, in União dos Palmares-AL and to associate knowledge with formal mathematics that is taught at school. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributions of Comics (HQs) are used in the mathematics learning process, as a communicative, creative, motivating and interesting resource. Thus, mediated by a moment of social distancing in the pandemic situation, the teaching and learning process took place in the virtual classroom environment through remote learning. The research was qualitative, based on a case study methodology, both in the quilombola community and in the virtual classroom. The subjects participating in the research were two artisans from the quilombola community of Múquem and students from the 7th year of Elementary School II from a state public school. To obtain data in the community, interviews, filming and photographic records of the process of handling the artisans' clay pieces were used. In the online classroom, two diagnostic activities (initial and final), a questionnaire, four HQs created and prepared by the researcher were used, along with in-depth activities on the subject areas of mathematics, through the pixton software, in addition to an evaluation by rubric. , with the objective of evaluating the study process carried out by the students during the research. The thematic areas used to structure the comics were: numbers, algebra, geometry, quantities and measures. For data analysis we used four categories of analyzes based on cultural mathematical knowledge, student's prior knowledge, implementation of comics, learning and performance. Therefore, the results pointed to the benefit of using comic books in the classroom as a resource that presents the potential, involvement, curiosity and creativity of mathematical elaboration and use in the classroom, valuing the experiences of a people potentially loaded with knowledge that they need to be understood in their diversity. In addition to encouraging reading, motivation and understanding of mathematics content as a critical subject, the comics allowed bringing interest and meaning to the domains of practical knowledge of the life of the quilombola community with cultural recognition.