USFMAT: AN EXTENSION PROJECT THAT LINKS MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL INCLUSION

Abstract

One of the roles of universities, besides teaching and research, is to contribute to society more directly, through extension projects. One way of reaching this goal is to contribute to the development of municipalities where development is still small. In this paper, we developed a project that employed the concepts of mathematics and computer science, in a coordinated way, to contribute to the target audience with improved incomes, their chances of admission to the IES and also for their development as citizens. The public focus of this study were students of the Catanduvas - PR, attending high school and who were close to entering the employment market or IES. It was verified that there was a contribution to the students who participated in the project, from the use of knowledge in their day to day, but also for knowledge in preparation for college entrance examination. There was also progress by ministering school students, knowing that this work enabled them to a first contact with teaching and an improvement in their training as undergraduates. The project's contribution to the development of the municipality, however, is a slow process that requires monitoring over several years of implementation, which preludes at this time, an immediate evaluation of project impact on local community.