A (prender) matemática é difícil: problematizando verdades do currículo escolar

Abstract

This study has as purpose to problematize the statement “To learn mathematics is difficult”. It is analyzed by examining the conditions of possibility of its emergency and its effects of truth, guided by the following research question: How the statement “To learn mathematics is difficult” is establishing itself as a truth in the school curriculum? The research data is composed by a set of discussions produced by a group of thirteen students of the 2nd year of the Ensino Médio of a public school located in Canoas city, RS. The empirical part of the research was accomplished with the use of the Group of Discussion methodology, applied in six meeting in which issues related to mathematics were examined. In these meetings, the students’ discussions were recorded and later they were transcribed. Besides these discussions, it was done a field diary. The production of the research data as well as its analysis was made having as support elements of Michel Foucault’s theory and the field of Ethnomathematics in their