Alfabetização matemática no contexto ribeirinho: um olhar sobre as classes multisseriadas da realidade amazônica

Abstract

This dissertation, entitled "Mathematical literacy in the river context: a look at the multigrade classes of reality Amazon", aimed to investigate theoretical and methodological approaches to teaching and learning of mathematics within the mathematics literacy, able to be established in classes multigrade schools riverside reality Amazon. In this research, the vision of mathematics literacy was constructed taking into account not only the first skills of reading and writing early language school mathematics by the child (DANYLUK, 1997), but as a path to learning of man and woman in the world of relationships mathematics, from theoretical conceptions of D'Ambrosio (2002), Domite and Mosque (2003), Sebastiani Ferreira (1997), I. Mendes (2009) and Freire (2002). The survey was conducted in São Domingos do Capim, Para State, Brazil, between October 2010 and August 2011. In research on literacy in math classes multigrade schools riverside, interactions were held with representatives of the Municipal Education riverside multigrade school visits, interviews with teachers of this county. As instruments of construction data were utilized field diary, interviews and observations. The analysis of field research was organized in the following items: a) the multigrade classes in mathematics and literacy riverside b) Teaching tools and mathematical literacy, and c) Culture and mathematics education in Amazonia: between scientific knowledge and knowledge of tradition . It can be argued that the mathematical literacy expressed within coastal still restricted to the strictly mathematical experiences related to school curriculum without considering the wealth of possibilities knowledge of students' experiences in their daily context as spatial displacement in the rivers, in Mathematical elements involved in marketing fruit and fish, for example.