Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Marcus Aldenisson  and  MESQUITA, Ilka Miglio. Intuitive Arithmetic primary course read in textbook: how to teach number and calculation?. Perspectiva [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.1, pp.403-428. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n1p403.

In this article the objective is to understand the methodological approach used to teach arithmetic in primary schools of the nineteenth century, when the intuitive teaching vacancy was used. For such an understanding, it is taken as an important source Antonio Bandeira Trajano´s Primary Arithmetica (Arithmetica Primária) in the years 1889/90. Thus, it is important to know: how Primary Arithmetic presented an intuitive proposal to teach counting and calculating? The first part of the article focuses on analyzing the textbook as a research source and its relevance as a research object. Then the article focuses on the elements that materialize the book in question from its loss of structure / dismantlement, bearing in mind the analytical perspective proposed by historian Jacques Le Goff . Finally, it appears as it was configured the intuitive proposal to teach counting and calculating, by analyzing the pages of Primary Arithmetic. The Analysis showed that the intuitive proposal for teaching number and calculation gave other enhancements to the arithmetic of elementary school: the appeal to observation, manipulation, experimentation, comparison and practice.

Keywords : Arithmetic; Primary School; Textbook.

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