WHATSAPP STUDENT TALKS: LEARNING MATHEMATICS IN COVID-19 TIMES
WhatsApp; TDIC; Covid-19; Final Years; Mathematics Education.
This dissertation deals with the teaching experience during Emergency Remote Teaching (ERE), in the context of social distancing, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study has the general objective of analyzing how student conversations carried out on WhatsApp can contribute to learning Mathematics in a group of students from the 7th year of elementary school 2. Specifically, we sought to identify how students express mathematical language on WhatsApp; to verify how WhatsApp contributes to the learning process in Mathematics based on student narratives in activities developed in the application and to understand students' strategies to study Mathematics in times of Covid-19. In methodological terms, the research is characterized by a qualitative approach, of the netnographic type, as a path of investigation among the subjects involved through the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC). To compose our corpus, the data were generated in a WhatsApp group with semi-structured online interviews for students, participant observation and field diary. For the research universe, 15 students from the 7th year of elementary school 2 participated, aged 12 and 13, who are students from a private school in the capital of Alagoas. In this way, the research indicates that we can say that WhatsApp contributed to the learning of Mathematics, providing an extension of the face-to-face classroom and collaboration between students, in addition to becoming a more dynamic and attractive network environment, helping each subject. to study mathematics.