One of the daily challenges for teachers is to find ways to motivate their students to learn math. In order to succeed in this process, reading about experiences that have had positive results always leads teachers to think that there is a better way to be followed. This work presents two projects that had as main objective to arouse a greater interest of the students in Mathematics and were applied in some classrooms of the Final Years of the Elementary School: the Internal Olympiad of Mathematics and the creation of a new discipline, called Essentials, that Seeks to make the student better understand the different intelligences through classes developed by a pedagogical team and teachers of mathematics at a private school in the State of Rio de Janeiro. In addition, it brings a survey conducted with students of the ninth grade of Elementary School who had contact with one of these projects in 2015 and 2016. This research shows the students perception about the work done in the discipline created, which has as guiding content planning The development of multiple intelligences. In this new discipline, students are introduced to different types of problems involving logical reasoning, text interpretation, spatial perception, and other skills that are added to the curriculum of the Final Years of Elementary School to better develop students performance in school life.