THE SOFTWARE ‘RULER AND COMPASS’ AS A TOOL FOR TEACHING GEOMETRY

Abstract

This article aims to report the experience using Compass and Ruler (C.a.R.) – a tool for teaching and experiencing geometry by René Grothmann–, in a workshop at the 18th National Week of Science and Technology of the Goiano Federal Institute (IFGoiano) - Campus Urutaí, 2021. Due to the social distance caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, the software was used in a remote workshop, which was organized by scholarship students of the Institutional Program of Initiation to Teaching Scholarship (PIBID/Mathematics) mathematics subproject. We studied the software, created the workshop session script, developed the activities, presented the workshop project to the PIBID coordination for corrections and guidelines, carried out a simulation and on October 7^th, 8^th, 2021, we held the workshop with thirteen students and the support of the subproject supervisor. The planning process and the pedagogical practice of the workshop were important for our professional training, notably the interaction between the participants and the scholarship students, as we followed their reasoning and intervened, provoking them with questions so that they could achieve the appropriate result.