Contributions of neurscience to mathematical education of one people with intellective special educational needs

Authors

  • Tania Elisa Seibert Universidade Luterana do Brasil
  • Claudia Lisete Oliveira Groenwald Universidade luterana do Brasil (ULBRA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984686X7627

Keywords:

Neurosciences, Mathematics Education, Intellective Special Educational Needs.

Abstract

This article presents a framework from a qualitative research, which is a case study, conducted with a student who has Spina Bifida, implementing an individualized electronic didactic sequence, which has as its central objective to qualify his autonomy in mathematics. The investigated student was 14 years old and attended the 7th grade of elementary school in 2012. The guiding question of this research was: can a person with a mild level of Intellective Special Educational Needs overcome cognitive difficulties in Mathematics involving an electronic didactic sequence? We emphasize the importance of neuroscience advances in educational process of people with Intellective Special Educational Needs, the multimodality of stimuli offered by Information and Communication Technology and the frameworks from the experiment results carried out between 2010 and 2012, with weekly meetings between researchers and the student, which indicate an evolution related to mathematical concepts such as cardinality, ordinality, place value, additive structure, comprehension of units of time, Brazilian monetary system and resolution of problems involving these concepts, especially those related to the additive field.

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Author Biographies

Tania Elisa Seibert, Universidade Luterana do Brasil

Professora do Curso de Matemática Licenciatura da Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA/Canoas).

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós Graduação em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática (PPGECIM) - ULBRA/Canoas

Claudia Lisete Oliveira Groenwald, Universidade luterana do Brasil (ULBRA)

Doutora em Ciências da Educação pela Pontifícia de Salamanca na Espanha, professora do Programa de Pós Graduação em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática e do curso de Licenciatura em Matemática da ULBRA.

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Published

2014-04-11

Issue

Revista Educação Especial, v. 27, n. 48, jan./abr. 2014

Section

Continuous Demand

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