Mathematics according to the Lifelike Pedagogy

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by Marcelo Rodrigues (Author)

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Mathematics according to the Lifelike Pedagogy

To complete the project about diamonds, the class of 6-year-old students decided to visit a museum where they could find diamonds. But, in order to do this, students needed to get the money necessary for the trip.

The class decided to earn the money by selling cheese breads and hot chocolate. For this purpose, it was necessary to sum the values needed for the trip so that they could be able to calculate how much they should sell and how much they should charge for each product sold.

But that was just the beginning of the use of mathematics. 

At the time children started to cook the cheese bread, they faced an interesting question: how to bake the greatest amount of cheese buns as possible in a shorter amount of time? To do this, they concluded that it would be necessary to arrange the bread in the broiler of an organized way so that more would fit.

How to arrange them? Creating rows of three breads, the children filled out the form and they realized that each new row summed a total multiple of three. Thus, it was easy to see the concrete meaning of the multiplication and to memorize the multiplication table. After that, the kids even tried to arrange rows of four cheese breads, calculating the multiplication table of 4.

Learning arose through the children’s need to maximize their production. Thus, it was not the teacher who said that the issue was important: children found themselves how much mathematics and, in this case, the multiplication is important.

Source: lifelikepedagogy dot com