Abstract

FERNANDES, Cleonice Terezinha; MUNIZ, Cristiano Alberto; MOURAO-CARVALHAL, Maria Isabel  and  DANTAS, Paulo Moreira Silva. Possibilities for learning: reflections on the neuroscience of learning, and motor and learning disabilities in calculating among 7 to 12 year old students. Ciência educ. [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.2, pp.395-416. ISSN 1516-7313.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320150020009.

The advancement of neurosciences in education presents aspects of memory, learning and the inseparability of the body-mind relationship in the learning of students. This study sought to correlate these concepts with Learning Disabilities (LD) specifically in arithmetic and principles of Mathematics Education. The purpose was to investigate the impact of an educational program with didactic and manipulative activities using movement-body in an experimental typology study with 37 students (of a private college in Cuiabá, MT, Brazil) between 7 and 12 years old with indicative of LD in calculus. The main result was the increase of the academic results of the students, showing that the use of the body and somatosensory activities can help students with LD to focus attention and improve their academic autonomy, sense of self-efficacy and mathematical understanding. Believing in the inseparability of the body-mind relationship and in the positive outcome of this study we conclude the need to promote research in motor learning to minimize impacts of LD.

Keywords : Neuroscience; Psychomotor performance; Arithmetic; Numerical cognition; Mathematics education.

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