Integration of mathematics teaching with learning objects in classical and Professional High School Education

Abstract

This article presents results of a research aimed at creating didactic material for the mathematics teaching-learning process in the high school and professional-technical education, which was developed within the period of a professional master's program. This research is the result of a cooperative work involving two study and research groups linked to both the respective master's program and institutions of integrated technical and high school education. All products were from masters' degree students and professors in the master’s degree program, who work in institutions of basic and professional education. Two products are highlighted: a "Repository of Learning Objects for Secondary and Professional Education (ROAMEP)" and a book (in press), which presents the productions and studies in the areas of mathematics and professional education. The Learning Objects (LOs) address most of the mathematics content in high school education and mathematics applications in professional technical courses. The LOs were created in the digital format, and some of them make the use of the dynamic geometry software whereas others involve activities without the use of digital technologies. In order to integrate mathematics education and professional education, the activities for technical courses address knowledge on technology including electricity, mechanics, and chemistry, involving questions of mathematical models and introduction to differential and integral calculus in addition to the knowledge required for secondary education.