Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam

Carmen Vieira Mathias; Cristian Martins da Silva; Fábio Luiz Borges Simas

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Carmen Vieira Mathias ¹ ^* , Cristian Martins da Silva ² , Fábio Luiz Borges Simas ³

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¹ Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, BRAZIL² Universidade Franciscana, Santa Maria, BRAZIL³ Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL^* Corresponding Author

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This article aims to analyze, categorize, and quantify the Brazilian high school national exam (ENEM) questions that require spatial visualization skills (SVS) for their resolution. This is a documentary research with a qualitative-quantitative approach whose corpus of analysis is ENEM exams carried out from 2009 to 2022, in the subject of mathematics and its technologies. There are four main results of this research: (1) spatial geometry (SG) questions that require SVS for their resolution (39.7%) are proportionally more frequent in ENEM than in four most used textbooks in Brazil (<20.0%), (2) some categories of SVS are much more frequent than others in ENEM questions, (3) the proportion of geometry questions in ENEM mathematics exam (23.0%) is considerably higher than the corresponding proportion of geometry-related skills in ENEM skills framework (13.0%), and (4) approximately half of ENEM geometry questions address SG.

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spatial visualization skills
the Brazilian high school national exam
geometry

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2024, Article No: em2415

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Mathias, C. V., da Silva, C. M., & Simas, F. L. B. (2024). Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 20(3), em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322

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Mathias CV, da Silva CM, Simas FLB. Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2024;20(3):em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322

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Mathias CV, da Silva CM, Simas FLB. Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2024;20(3), em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322

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Mathias, Carmen Vieira, Cristian Martins da Silva, and Fábio Luiz Borges Simas. "Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2024 20 no. 3 (2024): em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322

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Mathias, C. V., da Silva, C. M., and Simas, F. L. B. (2024). Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 20(3), em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322

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Mathias, Carmen Vieira et al. "Spatial visualization skills present in items of the Brazilian high school national exam". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 2024, em2415. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/14322