Nanoscience, nanotechnology and mathematics: Development of a workshop with high school students

Nanoscience studies the potential and properties of materials and promises to revolutionize the way we live, work and communicate. Therefore, we believe in the importance of creating spaces for discussion regarding this topic in schools. To this end, a workshop was developed with high school students in order to introduce the study of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in order to contribute to the construction of scientific knowledge from an approach involving mathematics. The development of the workshop enabled the relationship between different Mathematics content involving scales, surface areas and volume of geometric solids associated with Nanoscience. The workshop was offered to students in the sixth semester of the Integrated Computer Science Course and took place after regular classes in three meetings that took place over two weeks. The proposal was implemented with the introduction of problematizing questions, videos on the topic, expository part, experimental part, questions regarding the development of the proposal. The evaluation of the workshop was continuous and through dialogue, debates promoted, records made, perceptions of each specific moment during the development of the workshop and at the end with the application of a questionnaire. The involvement of all students was analyzed and participation was encouraged. The evaluations made it possible to identify that the development of the ofician could contribute to the learning of different Mathematics content related to scales, surface areas and volume of geometric solids associated with Nanoscience, in addition to contributing to the scientific education of students, since the topic is of great importance today.