Teacher, who invented mathematics? Crossings of the question that becomes a problem, and of a problem that invents curriculum

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  • Sônia Maria Clareto UFJF/MG - Juiz de Fora Federal University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1981-1322.2016v11nespp297

Abstract

This paper comes along with a research carried out in an public elementary school in Juiz de Fora – MG. In a class of mathematics a student inquires: Teacher, who invented mathematics? This question triggers unsettledness and disquietedness and it becomes an inquiry along the entire school. Students, teachers from early years and final years of elementary school are asked by this trigging question and they put themselves under inventions by constructing possibilities to confront this inquiry: Who invented mathematics? In this confrontment a curriculum begins to be created. Curriculum as a movement of question production that takes multiple entries and a plurality of inventive processes. An undisciplined crosses the curriculum. The paper is organized in four topics: In the first one, concerns to think about the particle “who” of the question made; the second one, the verb to invent in its verbal tense; in the other one, mathematics is inquired: which mathematics?; Lastly, it is replaced the initial question that comes up modified in the process of the following sentence: who invented mathematics in school?

Author Biography

Sônia Maria Clareto, UFJF/MG - Juiz de Fora Federal University

Possui graduação em Matemática pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (1987), mestrado em Educação Matemática pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1993) e doutorado em Educação Matemática pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2003). Atualmente é professora associada da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora e professora-pesquisadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da UFJF, atuando nos níveis de mestrado e doutorado . Tem experiência na área de Educação, com ênfase em Educação Matemática, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: espaço escolar, formação de professores, etnomatemática e espacialidade, filosofias da diferença e educação. Líder do Travessia Grupo de Pesquisa, cadastrado e certificado pelo CNPq, abrigado no Núcleo de Educação em Ciência, Matemática e Tecnologia NEC/FACED/UFJF. Realizou (2014-2016) o pós-doutorado na Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, com a supervisão do prof. Dr. Antônio Vicente Marafioti Garnica.

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Published

2017-01-25

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Vol. 11 (2016): Edição Especial: FILOSOFIA DA EDUCAÇÃO MATEMÁTICA

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