A história da matemática e o blog na formação inicial do professor

Abstract

This present paper consists in a qualitative approach using the research-action form, from which the studying aim is the subject História e Filosofia da Matemática, an optional curricular componet from a course in Licenciatura em Matemática. Believing that History of Math and technology, in special the blogs, build up potential pedagogical resources for the construction of a meaningful learning, its approaches are considered indispensable in courses for teachers degree. The history in classroom contributes for the demystification of the mathematics, pointing it as a science under construction, plausible of errors and without universal truths. Another favorable point regarding History of Math in the scholar environment is the possibility of rescuing cultures from which the economics and the politics are less improved is proposed. The technology, on the other hand, approached through blogs, is a component that can not be left behind in the contemporaneous society. Providing a current activity in the process of learning itself, the blog História da Matemática was used as a pedagogical resource, in which the teacher made the material available for the meetings, and the pedagogical strategy, the space in which the undergraduate students built a collective digital portfolio. With the main objective in working with the subject História e Filosofia da Matemática using a blog as resource and pedagogical strategy, the research obtained as a result the changing in the undergratuade students behavior to a stage in which they started to see the History of Math as a relevant knowledge also for the teachers, providing a second thinking in teaching strategies for elementary schools, presenting mathematics as human improvement.