Didática da matemática: a organização da disciplina e a produção dos licenciandos

Abstract

This book presents the production of undergraduate students in the Mathematics Degree at the Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Câmpus Curitiba, elaborated during the Didactics of Mathematics, an elective course in the 2nd semester of 2016. The objective of the course was to study and discuss theoretical foundations of didactics of mathematics as a field of practices and research, enabling undergraduates to understand the implications of conceptions about mathematics’ teaching that interfere in the planning and actions of teacher practice. In order to achieve this objective, it was intended to trigger the students’ activity, based on the need to think about the teaching organization and establish the actions and operations of learning about teaching. Each learning action in the discipline then had an intentional aspect (directed towards an objective) and an operational aspect (defined by the conditions for its realization). Thus, the three main actions within the discipline referred to the reading and discussion of previously defined texts related to graduating as a teacher; studies on school practices and challenges in organizing the teaching of mathematical content chosen by students; research on classroom practice based on a question formulated individually by undergraduates. The reflective syntheses of some students in this course make up this book and reveal that becoming a teacher requires the continuous search for possibilities and conditions for the teaching organization considering the specificity of the content to be taught, the characteristics of learning and development of students, the conditions of the school environment, among other aspects that involve planning and working in the classroom.