Etnomatemática vesus matemafobia

Abstract

The difficulty in the reality teach-learning of the mathematics in the schools you publish it comes growing of exponential form throughout the years. The characterization of the mathematics as accurate and abstract science directed the process of teach-learning of the mathematics to a restricted domain of techniques to operate symbols mechanically. History in the sample that the mathematics is product of the activity human being and appeared of the necessity of the man to understand the way sociocultural where is inserted. The idea to approach the mathematics as accurate and abstract science, produced in the pupils a feeling of Matemafobia (fear, aversion, antipatia the mathematics). Through interventions in some public schools of Abaetetuba with workshops and lectures on Etnomatemática in the classroom, we objectify to awake the educators for necessity to rethink the space of classroom, being searched to transform pupils into beings, critics, creative, participativos and transforming of its realities, respecting its beliefs, customs and cultures.