Uma análise da história da matemática em livros didáticos do ensino médio.

Abstract

The present research presents an analysis of the History of Mathematics in collections of textbooks of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year of the Brazilian High School. Having as a research problem: To consider whether the textbooks bring that subject according to official government documents. Already the goals are: (1) to verify if the textbooks of this educational stage are in agreement with the recommendations of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, regarding the History of Mathematics; (2) to identify the mathematical contents that are approached using the History of Mathematics; (3) to understand the role of the History of Mathematics in the organization of the contents to be presented in the didactic collections. In other words, this study is a bibliographic research based on the following official documents: Brazil’s National Common Curricular Base, the National Curriculum Guidelines for Secondary Education; National Curriculum Parameters; the National Program of Textbook; the Brazilian Elementary School Education Curriculum references of the Paraíba state, as well as, some authors like: Beatriz S. D’Ambrosio (1993); Maia Leão (2015); Silva et al. (2001); Miguel e Miorim (2011). Once the information has been collected of the government official documents, we performed a chapter by chapter analysis, for each collection and we debated how the History of Mathematics appears in these books. Furthermore, we realized how the use of the History of Mathematics is important in the student learning process.