Projeto “A cultura do milho numa perspectiva etnomatemática”

Abstract

This research was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology Fluminense, Campus Bom Jesus do Itabapoana - RJ. The target audience was 64 students, who joined the Technical Course in Agriculture in the academic year 2014 and 15 teachers that teach in this course. The main objective was to investigate ways in Ethnomathematics for teaching practice, adding value to culture and activities in the field of work, to improve the Technical Course in Agriculture Campus Bom Jesus do Itabapoana and other institutions or Agrotechnical schools. The project has developed a qualitative approach to narrative character of its results, producing knowledge aimed at harmony, solidarity and creativity, searching for a link between the real world and the subject. Appreciated the mathematical content through methodologies, facilitating understanding and promoting interdisciplinarity and contextualization of the themes developed in the field and in the classroom, contributing to the academic background of the student, their professional and social life, providing opportunities able to overcome the limits of room class, breaking down barriers, recognizing their judgment, the right to participate, according to designs which depart from their interests and aspirations for their practice in his professional life activities such as Agricultural Technician. With the methodologies developed during the process of teaching and learning we can conclude that the project is viable and deserves to be continued not only in the Federal Education Networks, as in other institutions, involving more and more participants, contributing to its formation and activities agricultural that make up the curriculum of the Technical Course in Agriculture.