THE PASSWORD GAME AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF COUNT: AN APPLICATION IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Game Password; Fundamental Principle of Counting; Laboratory of math; School of Integral Time.
This dissertation presents an approach of the game Password for a class of Secondary School in the Mathematics
Laboratory of the School State of Winston Churchill, of the year 2017. For this, the contexts of the teacher,
the school and the students will be presented; theoretical background, history, rules and game and the
mathematical content used in this application, the Principle Fundamentals of Counting; will be shown how the
planning and the execution of the activity, ending with a discussion about the questionnaire applied to students.
For the construction of this bibliographical, documentary and experimental research. As a suggestion, a list of
exercises is proposed to teachers, with issues that address the content of the Fundamental Principle of Counting,
drawn mainly from the National High School Examination of the Olympiad Brazilian School of Mathematics of the
Public Schools and the didactic second series of high school, by authors Gelson Iezzi et al., of the 2016,
Mathematics: science and applications. It was found that working with in the classroom is important and
interesting because it makes the student better understand the concept addressed in the room, even if the
game before or after the presentation of this concept, in addition to generating other skills in this subject,
and also enables the teacher to different from the
traditional chalkboard and chalk, coming out of the daily routine a long time has been taking care of our
classrooms.