Abstract
The present article aims to problematize the discourse of Mathematical Modeling in Mathematics Education, highlighting one of its historical discontinuities - from model to modeling. The theoretical-methodological contributions are linked to the philosopher Michel Foucault theorizations. The analytical material includes these theorizations and dissertations on Mathematical Modeling in Mathematics Education, advocated in Brazil from 1976 to 1999. The analysis of these materials showed that the Modeling discourse, when intertwining with the constructivist discourse, in the 1980s, displaces the sense of studying mathematics from models as a product for the construction of models as a process.
Keywords:
Mathematical Model; Mathematical Modeling; Discontinuities; Constructivism