Banca de DEFESA: ARTHUR HENRIQUE DA SILVA

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STUDENT : ARTHUR HENRIQUE DA SILVA
DATE: 25/03/2020
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: DEPARTAMENTO DE MATEMÁTICA - UFRN
TITLE:

Kaprekar's Recreational Mathematics in Basic Education

KEY WORDS:

 Recreational Math, History of Mathematics, Kaprekar, Arithmetic.

PAGES: 76
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Matemática
SUMMARY:

The main theme of this text is Recreational Mathematics. Therefore, we seek to
expose what some mathematicians say about its definition, highlight its importance for
the school environment and how it appeared throughout history. We will also address
big names in recreational mathematics, such as Martin Gardner, the leading name in
recreational mathematics in the world. And here in Brazil, we will talk about Malba
Tahan and his contribution to Recreational Mathematics.
In one of Martin Gadner’s publications, he points to an Indian mathematician
named Kaprekar. It is precisely this Indian mathematician that we will highlight in our
work. We will tell you a little about its history, going through childhood, adolescence,
until its adult phase. We will highlight the historical and geographic context in which he
lived at the time and discuss his two best-known researches: The Kaprekar Constant and
the Kaprekar Numbers. Our main mathematical focus will be the Kaprekar Numbers, we
adopted the way that Iannucci (2000) demonstrates the dynamics of the number in his
article.
But in order to be able to make the whole mathematical approach contained in
the Kaprekar Numbers, together with the article by Iannucci (2000), we will dedicate a
space for the dissertation to be able to explain the mathematics contained in the work,
which is, in general, Arithmetic.
In our research we will use the ideas of Chaquiam and Mendes (2016) to explore
the History of Kaprekar and as a result we propose an educational product that addresses
Recreational Mathematics associated with the History of Mathematics. This educational
product is an activity booklet to be used in the classroom by Elementary School teachers.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2350596 - GABRIELA LUCHEZE DE OLIVEIRA LOPES
Interno - 1958710 - EDGAR SILVA PEREIRA
Interno - 2476017 - JAQUES SILVEIRA LOPES
Externa à Instituição - MÁRCIA MARIA ALVES DE ASSIS - UERN