A mobilização de conhecimentos matemáticos no cotidiano de um trabalhador camponês.

Abstract

This article arises through a field research, where it seeks to bring the day-to-day mathematical knowledge of the peasants of a community called Sacada rural area of the municipality of Sumé-PB, in Cariri, Paraíba. The objective is to present a knowledge of the subjects that daily use to solve situations of daily life, knowledge that has been handed down from generation to generation and which are often or almost never remembered in textbooks or in schools. In this sense, our article is based on the narratives of some residents of the aforementioned community. Where through the speech of some, more specifically of one, Mr. Pedro, we try to bring theoretical foundation to discuss about other mathematics. We offer the following theoretical foundations; Ethnomathematics, Mathematics and Culture, Mathematics and Citizenship and Critical Mathematics education, these contributions bring us reflections of a Mathematics for life, thus valuing local knowledge, culture, context, the knowledge of each group, the day to day a man of the field, who neither exists for many. In this regard, the article seeks to show that we can, use / value the context, to build knowledge, seeking to contextualize from the local. This is the starting point for making Field Education for the peasants, valuing their context in the search for the construction of knowledge.