Between exposure and discovery: contributions of Martha Dantas for the teaching of Mathematics in schools

Abstract:

This paper presents a reflection on the process of writing the Mathematics didactic collection authored by Martha Dantas, Nogueira Eliana Costa, Neide Clotilde de Pinho and Souza, Eunice Guimarães and Omar Catunda. The first texts in this collection began to be written from 1969 and were designed, at this time, for the four years of fundamental school. To conduct this research we consider the backgrounds of authors of Cultural History as Roger Chartier, Alain Choppin and Michel de Certeau. The study allowed understanding the strategies of the authors, explained by Martha Dantas, for writing the Mathematics collection, which covers a large revision of contents, when compared with the previous collections written by these authors. In addition, to understand a methodology that proposes to break the lecture-only style of teachers and seeks to encourage discovery by the students.

Keywords:
Mathematics teaching; Textbook; Martha Dantas; History of Mathematics education