Uma abordagem da teoria de grafos no ensino médio

Abstract

This work shows a proposal to approach Graph Theory, which is rarely taught at public high schools, and looks for working the theme through the resolution of problems, providing opportunities to the pupil for effective participation on the building of arguments and challenging them to search for solutions, instigating the curiosity and requiring from them an attitude that lead to take decisions, favoring the emergence of creative answers and developing abilities concerning to those proposed on the Common Basic Curriculum of the state public high school. This proposal is described in two chapters, being the first one to introduce the theme on the second grade of high school, and the second one, to retake concepts already seen on the first one and introduce new concepts to the students of the third grade of high school. Both chapters are composed of problems, to introduce concepts and results as much to apply them, bringing their solutions and, in some cases, commentaries to the teachers