ABSTRACT
This article presents results of researches that were developed from the scientific initiation to the doctorate. While traveling through so many possible paths of research, I always feel drawn to the topic of intuitive teaching of Arithmetic in primary schools during the late nineteenth century. Taking the arithmetic trilogy of Antonio Bandeira Trajano - Aritmética Primária, Aritmética elementar ilustrada e Aritmética progressiva -, for analysis, I came to clear evidence that Brazil appropriated not only a pedagogical model of the United States - the intuitive teaching of Arithmetic -, but also a graphic-editorial model of a school book. In addition, the three works analyzed here are witnesses of the first attempts to constitute an Arithmetic pedagogy in Brazilian primary schools, which I have called practical-intuitive pedagogy.
Keywords:
Antonio Bandeira Trajano; arithmetic; schoolbook; intuitive method; practical-intuitive pedagogy