Abstract

GROSS, Giane Fernanda Schneider; SOUZA, Arnold Vinicius Prado  and  TREVISAN, André Luis. Mathematical reasoning in curriculum documents and guidelines: what does the literature highlight?. Rev. Ensino Ciênc. Mat. [online]. 2023, vol.14, n.1, a03. ISSN 2179-426X.  https://doi.org/10.26843/rencima.v14n1a03.

The present article aims to discuss what the literature published in the last 5 years highlights about mathematical reasoning (MR) with regard to national and international curriculum documents and guidelines. To this purpose, a qualitative bibliographical research was conducted, which, by means of pre-established criteria for the selection of materials in six databases, resulted in 24 articles. After the full readings of these articles, we focused on three important aspects, to be listed: (i) identification of documents and curriculum guidelines that mention the MR, (ii) how the mention of MR occurs, and (iii) discussions and didactic guidelines, highlighting resources, methodologies, and actions promoting MR. The results indicate that the presence of the term MR in curriculum documents and guidelines is still polysemic, and researchers do not present a definition or a direction for its effective development in the school context. In this way, we conclude that it is important to relate the teacher education, the curriculum documents and the practices that may promote the development of students’ MR.

Keywords : Mathematics Teaching; Mathematical Reasoning; Curricular Guidelines; Bibliographic Research.

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