THE TEACHING OF AVERAGE SPEED CONCEPT BEYOND MOVEMENT:

Abstract

The school environment experienced major changes after the start of the pandemic in which we were subjected to remote classes and social isolation. Despite the instant information present in the globalized world, in the face of health danger, we know how to prevent ourselves, ignorance regarding the coronavirus still led to speeches that protective measures are unnecessary and that other diseases proliferate and kill at higher annual rates than that of COVID-19. From the above, we want to elucidate evidence of how a traditional teaching of a simple and frequent concept in High School Physics classes, that of average speed, can make it difficult to clarify regarding contagion protection behaviors. To this end, we will relate the concept of average speed to that of rate and, more specifically, with the rate of contagion and mortality of a disease. The research made reference to the methodological approach of Problematization and quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed a public sample of the population of the State of Rio de Janeiro through responses to a Google Form questionnaire. The results reveal the urgency, in current High School, of a Physics Teaching less focused on formulas and more focused on the understanding of concepts.