Matemática moderna no Instituto Estadual de Educação Assis Brasil (1964-1979)

Abstract

This historical natured research, investigates how Modern Mathematics has been incorporated into the teacher training for elementary school, in the Institute of Education of Assis Brasil (IEEAB) in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The selection of IEEAB, which was created in 1929, is due to its pioneer work in Pelotas in teacher training for elementary school. The Modern Mathematics was a proposal of renewal in the teaching of mathematics, which triggered the movement known as the Modern Mathematics Movement. The research uses as investigative path a documentary research in a dialogue with a Cultural History, took advantage of the theoretical methodology in Michel De Certeau. The study sought answers to the question: how was Modern Mathematics appropriate in IEEAB? The sources used were documents related to IEEAB’s training courses, class diaries records, lesson plan, newspapers and pedagogical journals that circulated in Rio Grande do Sul from 1960 to 1979. It was inferred, from the evidences verified in documents, that teachers of IEEAB, who were already working in the classroom when the Modern Mathematics Movement spread throughout the country, they searched a continuing training that occurred through participation in lectures and teacher training courses. From the disclosures in the newspapers of events in the area, it was possible to identify which mathematical educators went to Pelotas to teach courses and lectures and which institutions organized these actions. The knowledge to teach and the knowledge to put it in practice appear mixed in the class diaries, not presenting a separation or systematization to apply each knowledge and without distinction of disciplines, both were addressed in the Mathematics disciplines and in the Didactics of Mathematics discipline. Were used the manipulative materials Cuisenaire de Gattegno and the Logical Blocks of Zoltan Dienes, for experimenting and developing activities in the classroom. As also were explored fields of psychology through Piaget's studies.