Aspects: the problem in school mathematics and the dilemma as an event

Abstract

This text is organized through a fictional scene, which has developed in six Acts. The scene was constructed from spectral voices, in sense of Jacques Derrida, which are produced from two doctoral researches, occurred in different temporalities. The proposal of scene construction is to weave familiarities between effects of meaning around problem and dilemma, based on a non-linear approach of time. In this way, we try to cover several uses of the words: problem and dilemma. With these scenarios, we propose to deconstruct the notion of problem in Mathematics Education and to reverberate other uses and senses. This movement proposes to think about the ways in which dilemmas are mobilized in social practices and their possible effects in the field of school practices. Moving from the question "what is a problem" to the questions: how is manifested the possibility impossible of event appearance in social practices? How do dilemmas happen? When do we solve a dilemma?”