Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Maria Cristina Araújo de  and  PIETROPAOLO, Ruy César. Traços de “modernidade” nos artigos de matemática da revista escola secundária. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2008, vol.08, n.25, pp.715-726. ISSN 1981-416X.

In this paper, we present an analysis of modernising proposals for the teaching of Mathematics, published between 1957 and 1963, in Secondary School Journal, aiming what was later called Modern Mathematics Movement (MMM). This Journal has been structured as a way to training teachers, as it rises when most of secondary school Brazilian teachers were self taught. Our aim is to identify mathematical and pedagogical contents highlighted as such discipline modernising proposals, following an international discussion on modernising mathematics teaching at secondary levels, according to the appropriation perspective of such proposals, by different authors of analysed papers. One of the identified modernising proposals is relativising deductive geometry teaching, priorising small local formal proofs in order to emphasise: assumed conditions as valid; what should be proof, directing the attention to what can be deduced from assumed conditions; performed reasoning to reach the results from data and already grasped knowledge. Therefore deductive geometry in ginásio should be faced more like a start for proof methods than as the development of a theory itself. Other identified aspect is the suggestion of using didactic material in the teaching of Mathematics, in order to make it possible for the student to experiment and verify properties and theorems.

Keywords : History of Mathematics Education; Pedagogical Journals; Modern Mathematics Movement.

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