Research in mathematical modeling in mathematics education: about continued formation activities in theses and dissertations

Abstract

One of the outcomes of our master, and that also placed in the context of a research project, is the teachers continued formation. In this sense, conducted by the question: What is shows the teachers continued formation activities in research of dissertations and theses Modeling in Mathematics Education?, in this study we aproach to the dissertations and theses that in this scope addressed the continued formation activities. At first, we perfom a search of these researches, which resulted in 8 dissertations and 1 thesis. In the second moment , they were analyzed and categorized according to their own information . We develop the research from the phenomenological perspective and use the software Atlas. T.i. in the analysis and categorization of the data process. During the research, we perform interpretations of the data analyzed that allow us to state that the activities of continued formation in Modeling has as main feature the " do modeling ", and in many cases do not address broader aspects of teacher education and the own Modeling.