O uso do jogo de xadrez como metodologia para o ensino de vetores

Abstract

Considering the difficulty that the students have to assimilate the content of vectors in physics, due to the traditional methodology of teaching still used nowadays that consists basically in share the contents in a mechanic way, this research aims to develop the educational product vector chess as instrument to teach these concepts through graphic, algebraic and numeric analogies stimulating considerable the logical thinking of the students. For this, it was used a quantitative and a qualitative methodology based on the application of two questionnaires, three tests and a chess tournament grounded in the different stages of classes realized in two classes of the 3

rd year of high school. Despite the students reject these activities in the beginning, it was evident the evolution of most of them during the stages of the work, they improved considerable their performance as it is possible to see in the graphics, they also had some suggestions to improve the educational product. It is possible to note a great importance in the work realized, searching for innovations, stimulating important aspects in the people as social interaction, discipline, self-evaluation, decision-making and others.