Uma linguagem geométrica singular refletida no Códice Atlântico de Leonardo da Vinci: contribuições para a geometria escola

Abstract

Mathematics teaching in Basic Education requires special attention from teachers and researchers in the field of Mathematics Education, because one of its functions is the student’s integral education as far as the mathematics’ knowledge needed for teaching. This thesis points out possibilities for this formation process in Basic Education and aims to establish relationships between the elements of geometry as reflected in Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus and the elements of school level geometry. It is a qualitative research whose focus were Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and notes contained in the Codex Atlanticus, where we searched for geometry objects with which we could establish relationships with school level geometry. The information gathered was dealt with based on a study of the Codex’s 602 pages, of which 13 were analyzed according to semiotic principles and to the reading of mathematical images as defined by Santaella (2005, 2012, 2018). The results of this analysis show that the drawings and notes contained in Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus present elements related to school level geometry which can be mobilized in teaching processes based on the problematization of these elements, materialized in teaching activities and investigation projects that may become didactical subsidies to be incorporated by mathematics’ teachers in the teaching of geometry in Basic Education.