A disciplina de matemática no currículo da Escola Técnica Presidente Getúlio Vargas: um estudo de narrativas de professores

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to examine how high school and professional education teachers in different areas of knowledge of the Escola Técnica Estadual Presidente Getúlio

Vargas in Santo Angelo (RS) describe the rank occupied by Mathematics in the school curriculum. The guiding issues of the research are: a) How teachers describe the different

curricular subjects of the school regarding the timetable distribution in high school and professional education; b) How teachers describe the position of Mathematics in high school

and professional education. The theoretical references that guided the present research approach issues related to the teachings of Math and the school contents focusing on the

Positivism, as one can find the basis that allow for the comprehension of formalism signs and the abstraction of school mathematics. It focuses on the Ethno-mathematics, where important tools are found in order to analyze the research material. The place of research is the Escola

Técnica Estadual Presidente