An analysis of academic researches in Mathematics Education about the historical focus of the concept of function / Uma análise de pesquisas acadêmicas em educação matemática sobre o enfoque histórico do conceito de função

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2008

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Keeping in mind the discussions about the presence of the historical approach in the field of Mathematics teaching, which is recommended in events of this area, in the Curricular Proposals for São Paulo State and in the National Curricular Parameters, and the importance of the concept of function in the meaning of Mathematics in high school, this work, inserted in the research line Pedagogical Practices and the Educator Formation, researched the following question: In which ways and historical perspective the teaching of function makes itself present in the recent academic production from the area of Mathematics Education? This research has as objective to check in which degree of importance the scientific community, who studies the teaching of Mathematics, has given to the pedagogical practices that facilitate the construction of this concept. We consider that its necessary a study on this aspect to notice didactic and pedagogical elements which can help the teachers work in the classroom and guide his initial and continuous formation of the Mathematics teacher. For this reason, we accomplished a qualitative research concerning the production of dissertations and thesis from 1997 until 2006, taking into consideration the analysis of the academic production of the same period that concerns the approaches of the works done. In this aspect, we searched the website of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES, which aims to help the access to thesis and dissertations carried out in postgraduate programs in Brazil. We hypothesize that the topic function, which is extremely important in the Mathematics Education, has received little attention by researchers. Along the path of this work we delineate a historical route about the concept of function its representations and meanings so we can understand the teachers own practice in the classroom. Some questions about the teaching of the concept in the Mathematics Education are introduced.

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pedagogical practices historical approach of the teaching of function pesquisa acadêmica educacao abordagem histórica do ensino de função práticas pedagógicas academic research

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