O ensino de matemática na classe hospitalar com crianças em tratamento oncológico em Alagoas

Abstract

This article aims to study the teaching of mathematics in the hospital class and originated from the extension project "Studying no matter the place" at the Education Center of the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL, with children undergoing cancer treatment in in pediatrics at a hospital located in the city of Maceió. During one year, weekly visits were made. Pedagogical activities adapted to the patients' skills and needs, always respecting their limits. Most of the children undergoing treatment are from the interior of the state and usually spend long periods away from school, whether due to prolonged hospitalization for chemotherapy or treatment complications. The Extension project aimed to remove them from the focus of the disease / treatment and develop a pedagogical work that would provide linguistic and mathematical literacy through playful-practical activities linked to the contents according to the school level of each student. This article, in turn, presents an analysis of the teaching of mathematics for these children with the theoretical reference of the studies of Carvalho (2016), Fiorentini (2001) and Mendes (1995). To this end, it is organized, in addition to the introduction and final considerations, into four sections. The first addresses the training of the Alagoan pedagogue and hospital classes, the second the right to education, the third non-formal spaces for education and the fourth the experience with mathematics.