O movimento da matemática moderna no Brasil : análise no livro didático “matemática curso moderno”

Abstract

This paper, as a general intention, analyzes the professor Osvaldo Sangiorgi’s textbook entitled “Mathematics Modern Course (1968)”, intended for junior high school, in order to highlight the presence of characteristics of the Modern Mathematics’ Movement in the work, which is used in the city of Jacaraú – PB in the end of the 1960’s decade and in the beginning of the 1970’s decade. In the research, we will describe the process of emergence and development of the Modern Mathematics’ Movement, both here in Brazil and worldwide. Besides that, we’ll show, also, a little of the history of the Mathematics in Brazil’s textbook. Regarding to the methodology, we have an explanatory research, characterized as a documental research, since it sought to analyze the approaches done in the book quoted above. To theoretical basis in our research, we sought the authors Fiorentini (1995), Valente (2008), Santos (2016) and Alves (2007; 2013) that talk about the emergence of the Modern Mathematichs’ Movement, telling about the reasons that influenced the creation of this movement. In parallel, we’ll show the development of Moderns Mathematics here in Brazil, based in authors as Alves (2013), Soares (2001) and Miranda (2003). To conclude our reasoning, we’ll brought a little about the history of the Mathematics in Brazil’s textbook, which were the first books to be published in our country and how was its path till the creation of the National Textbook Program (PNLD). It was possible to observe which were the main characteristics of this movement, how it influenced the education and the didactics publications by that time. Thus, this work bring a brief historic of the Modern Mathematics’ Movement, showing its main characteristics and its influences in the education of Mathematics and, mostly, in textbooks, in particular the professor Osvaldo Sangiorgi’s book because we visualize that the characteristics of the Modern Mathematics were there. That said, we can examine these characteristics and identify which were the main aspects of the Modern Mathematics contained in the book analyzed.