THE CHILD AND THE IDEA OF NUMBER: REFLECTIONS, PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article brings an excerpt from the educational product activity book: "How does the child understand the number? Practical activities and reflections", and fulfills the objective of presenting results and perceptions about the construction of number from the activity "The Silver Box", which aims to contribute to the training of teachers who teach mathematics in the early years of Basic Education and to stimulate the construction of the idea of number in children through educational games. These are theoretical and practical reflections of teachers in a master's research carried out in first-year classes of Elementary School, which addressed collaborative practices in the teaching of mathematics with reflections on the construction of the concept of number by children. This product lists educational activities involving the Piagetian concept of number, as well as reflections arising from experiences with the materials involved in the investigation. The results and discussions about the children's inference in the activity were analyzed from the records in field diaries, audios, photographs and videos and the children's interactions in the classroom context during the research, with the propositions, speeches and actions of the children analyzed in a qualitative way and that guided the elaboration of the product on screen. The results of the material point to the stimulation of the learning of the participating students, signaling how teachers can intervene in order to enhance these learnings, perceiving children's behaviors and thoughts that can lead them to the construction of the concept of number.