Revista Brasileira de Educação
Print version ISSN 1413-2478On-line version ISSN 1809-449X
Abstract
MESQUITA, Milene Nagila; CEOLIM, Amauri Jersi and CIBOTTO, Rosefran Adriano Gonçales. MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CRITICAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: APPROACHES IN BASIC EDUCATION. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.26, e260022. Epub Apr 09, 2021. ISSN 1809-449X. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1413-24782021260022.
The present article presents some results of research, whose objective was to investigate the attending teachers’ perceptions in the Educational Development Program (EDP) about activities of Mathematical Modeling (MM) in the perspective of Critical Mathematics Education (CME) in Basic Education (BE). Papers published at the EDP’s website under the supervision of professors from Universidade Estadual do Paraná (Unespar), campus Campo Mourão, were investigated. The theoretical assumptions were based on studies by Ole Skovsmose - CME and some authors who approach MM in the scope of BE. The use of Textual Discursive Analysis, suggested by Roque de Moraes, enabled the construction of two categories that evidenced contributions from MM activities to the teaching and learning of Mathematics. One contemplates the planning, implementation, and evaluation of MM activities in BE; whereas the other highlights professors’ concerns about the construction of critical sense.
Keywords : critical mathematical education; mathematical modeling; Educational Development Program; social transformation.