A educação matemática e a elaboração de livros didáticos: a coleção Matemática de Imenes e Lellis

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze one Maths didactic collection from the perspective of the Mathematical Education’s history. To do this, we have used as sources four teacher’s books from Imenes and Lellis’ Mathematical collection for Elementary Education II, all written in 1999, first edition, seventh impression. In addition, we have conducted two interviews with one of the authors of the collection, Luiz Marcio Imenes. This work was based on some questions: What appropriations of proposals for teaching Maths in the field of Mathematics Education can be identified in the Mathematical Collection of Imenes and Lellis? More specifically, how is Geometry taught in this Collection? What are the differentials of this collection when compared with other didactic collections? This work was based on Marc Bloch's conceptions of historical production, on the contributions of André Chervel on the history of school subjects, under the importance of didactic manuals studies as sources of research by Alain Choppin, in additionto the research on the mathematical education history in Brazil, especially by Wagner Valente. Using the Geometry as the guiding thread, we notice that the Collection of Imenes and Lelis works with an alternation between the branches of Maths throughout the chapters in all the books, besides expressing a significantly number of pages talking about Geometry. These are differential points from other contemporary books. The authors use Mathematics Education in order to relate geometry, algebra and arithmetic in search for the construction of knowledge which leads students to learning along with understanding to contruct student’s knowledgment.