Geometria nos vagões: conexões entre o ensino de geometria espacial e os tipos de vagões

Abstract

This material came from the need to present the content of spatial geometry, regarding railroad cars, which is one of the study objectives of the students of Integrated Electromechanical Rail Maintenance (INERM) at Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo - Cariacica Campus. In this material the following contents are covered: a brief history of space geometry and some important characters that over time helped organize it, or simply made use of it; the need for the emergence of units of measure, a summary of spatial geometry contents, images of some railroad cars and their specifications; associations of some models of cars with solids and some application examples of geometry in studies of railroad cars. It is expected that after this reading students can relate the concepts, forms and properties of solids to the cars, and thus create the necessary connections to the resolution of future problem situations involving the concepts of geometry.