Estilos de aprendizagem no ensino médio e a sua influência na disciplina de Matemática

Abstract

In this paper the author presents a study on learning styles of high school students in some public schools of the state of Minas Gerais. The goal is to identify and categorize the predominant profile among students on this level and compare it to the styles of math teachers. To perform this study we worked with a sample of 556 high school students (1st, 2nd and 3rd year) of three state schools, two city Formiga and Cristais City, both of Minas Gerais. At first it was proposed to students and teachers of mathematics to answer the questionnaire N-ILS (Index of Learning Styles), this version is reduced and adapted to the Brazilian context of the original questionnaire known as ILS (Index of Learning Styles) proposed by Felder and Silverman (1988) in order to get the necessary data search. Subsequently analyzed the styles of the students who had the best performance in this discipline. After performing statistical studies can be seen that the high school students in general are predominantly sensory, visual, active and sequential. It was also observed that students with better performance in mathematics showed learning styles closer to those shown by the teachers of this content. Finally, suggestions were given to planning a lesson to meet most students.