Ensino de algoritmos, programação e matemática: panorama e estudo de caso para estudantes de escolas públicas brasileiras

Resumo

The literature indicates that algorithms and computer programming is an increasing tendency in elementary education. However, as indicated here, the official curriculum in Brasilian schools do not reflect this trend. Besides, this paper also presents the results from the first year of a project to teach programming exploring curricular math concepts, in a Brasilian public school. This course was organized in two semeters, during the first was used the visual programming paradigm, to hava a smoth introduction. In the second semester, a commercial language (Python) was used. Regardless some difficulties faced, the students make good progress.