Ensino de matemática: um estudo de caso de uma prática diferenciada

Abstract

This work, done in the period from 1999 to 2002 in a private high school in the city of Goiânia, presents a case study of a differentiate teaching of mathematics. From observations of mathematics classes, of activities developed in the specific laboratory of this discipline, interviews with teachers, co-ordinators and the principal of the school, an attempt was made to understand how occurs the practice of a differentiate teaching that includes the implementation of an institutional teaching project, continuous qualification of teachers and material conditions (equipment and adequate rooms, classrooms and laboratories). This way of teaching rips the conception of mathematics directed to an elite of students intellectually privileged and enables the teaching of this subject to a greater number of students. Considering the fact that the school’s mathematics teaching is based on the theory of Piaget’s cognitive development an effort was made to study this psychologic focus . After observations, study and analysis we concluded that this diferentiate way of teaching is a viable maner to propitiate an apprenticeship of knowledge about this area, in order to reduce the difficulties faced by teachers and students.