Abstract

BOFF, Daiane Scopel; POZZOBON, Marta Cristina Cezar  and  OLIVEIRA, Cláudio José de. The exercise of teaching in mathematics education: the “same old same old” and the “imperative of deficit”. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.61, pp.369-389.  Epub Feb 16, 2023. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serieestudos.v27i61.1672.

This article deals with the teaching practice(s) of teachers who teach Mathematics in the final years of Elementary School. The reflection presented emerges from research that investigated: what teachers who teach Mathematics say in times of pandemics about teaching in the final years of Elementary School? and how do these sayings provoke other ways of thinking about teaching? The research material was generated through an online questionnaire designed to understand the teaching practice in pandemic and non-pandemic times. The analysis undertaken shows that teaching in times of pandemics, especially in remote education, tends to reproduce the same ritualized mode of classroom teaching and to enhance what we call the “imperative of deficit”: deficit of interest, of participation, of understanding of mathematical language and of Internet access. From this, the importance of time for the exercise of thought and for the production of experiences that touch and transform life is highlighted, so that the being-doing of teaching is also understood as a humanizing power.

Keywords : teachers who teach Mathematics; Elementary School; pandemic.

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