Memóricas: o jogo numérico de cartas

Abstract

This work aims to present “Memóricas: the numerical card game”, to evaluate and teach students based on the comparison and association of the symbols of the Egyptian, Roman, and Hindu-Arabic numerical systems. Students have difficulty understanding and finding mathematics in their daily lives, and other school subjects. Deficient education contributes to these imbalances that are also social and family. So, through the history of mathematics, it was developed by the extension project “Without more nor less”, from the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal), a card game that makes the association of these numerical symbols, so that the players, with a history or not from contact with the content at school, they can, from this tool, observe if their knowledge is sufficient to understand the logic in the transpositions of the cards. It was observed that even interacting with classmates of the sixth grade, the game is not enough for students to learn or remember, without the intervention of the teacher, even if they have had classes on the subject. They must receive instructions on the symbols and history of these civilizations at a time close to what they are going to play.