Abstract

SILVA, Circe Mary Silva da. Images in textbooks of mathematics: Georg Augusto Büchler and Karl Sölter. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.1, pp.55-65. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v39i1.28468.

This article discusses the use of images in mathematics textbooks written by George Augusto Büchler and Karl Sölter, in a cultural historic perspective. Büchler´s first work, written in 1919, was aimed at the school public of school groups and German-Brazilian schools, while the second by Solter, published in 1932, was aimed at primary school. We conclude that the insertion of images in the two books analyzed, based on the intuitive method, had an instructional role but some of the images had ideological and aesthetic roles. Both authors included the images, more attractive to children's eyes, moving away from the abstraction so criticized by Pestalozzi and mathematical content presented in both books are focused on basic concepts of arithmetic, in a close connection between the child's life and the child's school life.

Keywords : arithmetic; image; intuitive learning; textbook..

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