A LUDICIDADE E O ENSINO DA MATEMÁTICA NA PRÉ-ESCOLA

Abstract

The present study deals with playfulness and the teaching of mathematics in Preschool. The general objective is to understand the importance of applying playfulness in mathematics teaching as a facilitator in preschool learning. When the child has the opportunity to play, learning is built with joy and pleasure. Mathematics teaching goes through the challenge of stimulating creativity, autonomous and independent thinking, in addition to problem solving competence. They also allow for moments of cooperation, autonomy, creativity, imagination and self-knowledge. Educators must seek ways to encourage their students' learning motivation, based on interaction, socialization, increased organization, confidence and concentration. In addition, games and games involving Mathematics remove from this discipline the pre- established aspect of difficulty and disinterest that students may have. In this way, taking the essence of the discipline from the game and mathematical activities makes it possible to understand its functioning. Mathematics must be contextualized, related to the student's daily life and he must see meaning in what he is learning. Playfulness in Elementary School is very important, because it treats Mathematics in a fun, recreational and interesting way, which provides greater learning, in an inventive and critical way within the proposal of this discipline. In this way, we sought, through a bibliographic research, theoretical elements as a subsidy for the reflections on the understanding of the subject under study.