Práticas educativas da Matemática e os impactos ambientais no sistema agroflorestal de um campus do Instituto Federal do Pará

Abstract

Agriculture is one of the activities that has impacted the environment more current day; Producing food in ways that reduce the impact of nature is a challenge to be overcome. The agroforestry system is an alternative of agricultural production associated to the cultivation of trees that reduce the devastation of nature. Through this research, possibilities of minimizing environmental impacts in agriculture were studied, based on the use of mathematical knowledge. This research has a qualitative approach, initially consisted of the application of questionnaires with open and closed questions to ten teachers and twenty students of a Technical Course in Agropecuária Integrated to High School in Pará Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Marabá Rural Campus. During the development of the research several educational practices were carried out; In these activities, the students participated actively and in the end the action and its importance in the agricultural context was reassessed, always trying to enable those involved to perceive the importance of the knowledge built in the school in the daily activities. The objective was to investigate the view of both regarding the importance of educational practices developed in the agricultural context and the use of mathematical knowledge to reduce the damage caused to nature, particularly the agroforestry system. The results point to the importance of mathematics contents, articulated with the other areas of the curriculum, in the search for alternatives that reduce the environmental impacts on agricultural activity.