Abstract
The present article shows the connection between sex education workshops and mathematics teaching, and how schoolchildren can learn from this discipline more healthy and caring behaviors regarding their sexual life. The schoolchildren who have received sex education in the math context recall more about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and claim to be better acquainted with prevention methods. A significant advance of our sexual and reproductive health program is the sharp decrease of 15% (p < 0.025) among adolescents who never use condoms. Thus, the teaching of mathematics adequately oriented to sex education may contribute (along with other school disciplines) to greater protection of adolescents, in the southern region of Brazil. Also, it is possible to confirm that creative educational strategies can make a big difference in the prevention of adolescents and young people contamination with STDs, in Brazil and worldwide.
Highlights
It is possible to observe through the AIDS Epidemiological Bulletin of 2016 [1] that Florianópolis/SC shows AIDS incidence rates of 53.7/100.000 inhabitants
The present article shows the connection between sex education workshops and mathematics teaching, and how schoolchildren can learn from this discipline more healthy and caring behaviors regarding their sexual life
The teaching of mathematics adequately oriented to sex education may contribute to greater protection of adolescents, in the southern region of Brazil
Summary
It is possible to observe through the AIDS Epidemiological Bulletin of 2016 (published in 2017) [1] that Florianópolis/SC (the second most important place among the capitals and 97th among the Brazilian municipalities) shows AIDS incidence rates of 53.7/100.000 inhabitants. According to the present work author, it is a coherent initiative with a view of sexuality as a cross-cutting theme that should be addressed by different ways, in many compulsory subjects of the school curriculum and ended up not being much explored by educators, in Brazil and the world. The idea behind such multidisciplinary approach in the school curriculum would be the discourse coherence of all teachers in the school environment and collective responsibility of the faculty that would facilitate to address various issues such as self-esteem, pubertal changes, respect sexual differences, prevention of diseases depending on each school achievement, and sexual initiation.
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